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Rigid but Sore-Free. It was sheer good fortune that the broken vertebrae were in the lumbar region and did not damage the end of the spinal cord-a far less serious situation than if they had been in the cervical or thoracic areas, where the cord might have been severed by dislocation of the bones. A break of any of the cervical vertebrae could have paralyzed Teddy's body from the neck down, while a fracture of any of the twelve thoracic vertebrae might well have paralyzed his trunk or legs...
When his father suffers a fatal stroke, Jonas Cord Jr. (George Peppard) rushes straight home from the factory to make a pass at daddy's flammable blonde wife, Carroll Baker. "You wouldn't dare!" she screams. But in a movie like this, a statement like that means let's dance. In no time at all, the lady appears in black chiffon to ask: "How d'ya like my widow's weeds?" As the girl eventually transformed into Rina Marlowe, a doomed Hollywood sex goddess, Actress Baker seems uncertain about which actress living or dead...
Rushed to a hospital, Arias underwent two lengthy operations. Dame Margot went on with her show in England, took the curtain calls and then flew to Panama. At week's end, doctors were hopeful of saving Tito's life, but one bullet may have damaged his spinal cord, possibly paralyzing him from the neck down. And Jimènez? The word reaching frustrated police is that he is hiding out in the home of another political pal, one who has legislative immunity, and is thus quite beyond their reach...
...conductor's baton away from him and began trying to conduct the 30-piece orchestra; she draped the cord of her microphone around the head of one of the violinists; she sat on a chair and seemed to be muttering to herself. She slurred through some of her songs at random. "I'm supposed to be temperamental," she explained...
...Stumbling, sliding, frantically pulling to free his arm, Walker was dragged to the end of the platform and slammed into a metal rail. As the train entered the tunnel, he was battered repeatedly against the concrete wall along the tracks. When a passenger finally pulled the emergency brake cord, Walker was dead...