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Physically mended from bullet wounds sustained when an assassin tried to kill him in the fall of 1959, Kassem has put his bloodstained tunic on display at his office in the Defense Ministry. Kassem describes his escape from death as an act of providence. As a result, his style of rule now often seems to transcend the merely earthly. He roams his curfewed capital in the early hours of the morning visiting bakeries "to taste the people's bread." He engages in talks with the goatskin-clad poor who live in reed huts on the mud flats of Baghdad...
...spine. At War Memorial Hospital, the family doctor, Ray Christensen, found that Bruce's left lung had been punctured. He put a tube into the boy's chest, drew off blood and reinflated the lung. But Dr. Christensen, to his puzzlement, could not find the bullet...
...your Jan. 2 issue, "Emperor's Homecoming" and "Rebel Leader Hanging in Addis Ababa," are closer to the real Ethiopia of 1961 and its ruler and are more appropriate. The first shows a subject groveling at the feet of the Lion of Judah, and the second, "the bullet-riddled corpse of a rebel chieftain hanged in a public square...
...that the brink of war was near. "Foreign forces of North Viet Nam have attacked." cried the Laotians. "An estimated strength of six battalions." Next day Information Minister Bouavan Norasingh announced dramatically that the northern provincial capital of Phongsaly had just fallen, though "our troops fought to the last bullet." Who had captured Phongsaly? Bouavan stared at the ceiling for a moment and answered: "The Viet Minh and the Chinese Communists." With no way of knowing what was actually going on along the remote frontier, the U.S. took the news with a grain of salt-but alerted its Pacific striking...
...working on guidance systems for space vehicles of the Dyna-Soar type ?vehicles with supporting wings to get them out of the earth's atmosphere. He sees little future for manned space exploration in Project Mercury, which uses a ballistic missile, which is shot like a bullet, has no wings and not much control after it is fired. "That's sort of like going over Niagara Falls in a barrel," says Draper. "You don't expect to find many people making a career of it." Draper's Instrumentation Lab has also designed on paper an unmanned payload to circle...