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...night before his surgery, the President was given a routine physical examination. Then the otolaryngologists (ear-nose-throat specialists), headed by Dr. Wilbur J. Gould of Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital, reconnoitered the presidential larynx, the territory in which they would be operating at dawn. The polyp, about the shape and consistency of a tiny button mushroom, was growing from the right vocal cord. Surgeon George A. Hallenbeck of the Mayo Clinic and Dr. David P. Osborne, a Navy surgeon, examined the presidential abdomen, where a lump the size of a golf ball protruded near the scar left...
Bullhorns & Hot Coffee. The target was the tiny (pop. 4,000) village of Samu, three miles north of the Israeli border, a frequent staging area for terrorists. At dawn one morning last week, 4,000 Israeli troops, riding in Jeeps, personnel carriers and five Patton tanks, rumbled across the frontier, overwhelmed an eight-man police post and swept into Samu, routing sleepy-eyed residents out of their homes with booming bullhorns. While Israeli troops calmly sipped hot coffee on Samu's main street, demolition teams dynamited 46 empty houses, and three tanks reduced the local mosque to rubble...
...thing the show makes amply clear: Hals is not just the painter of laughing cavaliers and gypsy girls. He is, in fact, more of a Dutch uncle than he first appears. Many of his women are as homely as a wooden shoe. He lived during the dawn of the age of reason, when the philosopher Rene Descartes, whom Hals painted, proclaimed "I think, therefore I am." Man as pictured by Hals bulks almost impertinently from the canvas, but often there is a glint of self-knowledge in his eyes...
...dies before delivering. Doe next touches a baker's doughy widow, to whom he has previously applied for favors of another order; she indignantly draws the line at moneylending. Eventually, Doe's own wife stakes him, unsolicited. And off he flies with Junior, into a roseate dawn. This is essentially the story of A Dream of Kings.* By Homerizing it, Harry Petrakis has made it read like a cameo epic-one that has now settled onto the bestseller lists...
According to Owen J. Gingerich, lecturer on Astronomy at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, the shooting stars could start falling by 11 p.m. tonight, with the spectacular shower, if it occurs, coming between 2 a.m. and dawn...