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...fact that, at moments of tension and anxiety, Richard's speech is afflicted by a slight stammering over sibilants and gutturals. There are even traces of the Maurice Evans tremolo, and at one point Madden pushes his voice to a gargly fortissimo. Later he even seems to suffer a chest spasm or an asthma attack...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'Richard II' Has Highly Engrossing King | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

...continue on much the same path. If he tends toward conservatism, it might move toward the right ? though probably not enough to satisfy the congressional critics. More vacancies might come even before Johnson leaves office. Black is 82; Douglas, 69, recently had an electronic pacemaker implanted in his chest to correct a slow heart rate; John Marshall Harlan, 69, has failing eyesight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: CHIEF CONFIDANT TO CHIEF JUSTICE | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

...just fine," chirped his wife Cathy, 25, and that was as proper a prognosis as any on the mettle of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 69, already striding about a day after surgery in which an electronic "pacemaker" was implanted in his upper chest to correct a slow heart rate. That speedy recovery was hardly a surprise to the residents of Bucks County, Pa. Just two days before his operation, Douglas had heartily outpaced 200 other huffing, puffing conservationists on a brisk, five-mile walk-in to protest the partial closing of the 140-year-old Delaware Canal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 21, 1968 | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

Last week Val was as bad as her word. She strode into The Factory, pulled out a .32-cal automatic and pumped a shot into Warhol's chest. As he fought for life in a hospital, pals insisted that he had not brought it on himself. "Violence is everywhere in the air today," said Ultra Violet. "He got hurt in the big game of reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Felled by Scum | 6/14/1968 | See Source »

Lethal Fragments. The hospital's doctors had already performed a tracheotomy making an entrance in his throat for a tube leading to a positive-pressure machine that was pumping air in and out of his lungs. Electrodes from an electrocardiograph were taped to the Senator's chest and extremities in order to monitor his heart. X rays of his head and chest were taken. He had been receiving whole-blood transfusions ever since he had arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trauma: Everything Was Not Enough | 6/14/1968 | See Source »

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