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...police report stated that a bullet was removed from the upper left portion of his chest...
Into Nevada. Hughes was seriously injured in three plane crashes, the last and worst in 1946, when he was test-piloting the twin-engine XF11. One of its huge, counterrotating propellers froze. He brought the plane to a crash landing next to a Los Angeles country club. His chest was crushed and doctors doubted that he would live. The aftereffects of those crashes have been blamed for his later reclusiveness. He first grew a mustache while recovering from the XF-11 crash because the burns he had suffered made shaving painful. For all his feats. Hughes is regarded...
...forgivable shortcomings. As he once put it, "It's damn nice to be King." A robust 6 ft. 6 in., he trained in the navy, exercised to make himself "the strongest monarch in history," as a London newspaper once dubbed him, and sported tattoos on his arms and chest. To most Danes he was a discreet, suitable constitutional monarch and an ideal family man and father. His popularity was enhanced by Swedish-born Queen Ingrid and Daughters Margrethe, 31, who succeeds him, Benedikte, 27, married to German Prince Richard zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, and Anne-Marie, 25, the exiled...
...Virgil Day, the informal business leader, is onetime U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough, a dirty word to many unionists. The labor men, for their part, have taken to sending alternates to most meetings. The choice of AFL-CIO President George Meany, who has been recovering from an attack of chest pains, is Nathaniel (Nat) Goldfinger, his acerbic director of research, whose constant needling frequently infuriates Chairman Boldt, who is a Federal judge from Tacoma...
...seven warning signals." Yet 30% could not name a single one of the seven, 17% could identify only one, 40% knew two or three signs, and only 13% could cite four or more. Concerning heart disease, 27% could not name a single obvious symptom like shortness of breath or chest pain...