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...pocket $138.66 in cash money: I remember it brilliantly because I lost the same chance at the same moment...The dawn of the new year turns the thoughts of homeless men to peace beyond the dissecting room, and I accompanied the sergeant and a coroner on a tour of fatal scenes...The sergeant...began a search of the dead man's pockets, looking for means to identify him. He found nothing whatever of that sort, but from a pants pocket he drew out a fat wad of bills, and a hasty count showed that it contained $416. A situation worthy...
This flaw has yet to prove fatal, although a poor box-out job last week did give Brooklyn College a futile final shot in regulation...
...Questioned by a Western reporter, Politburo Member Viktor Grishin allowed that Ustinov, who has not been seen in public since September, was suffering from a "sore throat." U.S. analysts did not believe Ustinov was dying, but, as one Washington Kremlinologist put it, "colds in the U.S.S.R. tend to be fatal...
Though no one expected Fae's survival to be easy, her death last Thursday night came as a surprise. The child, who was born with a fatal defect called hypoplastic left heart, had received the heart of a seven-month-old female baboon on Oct. 26 and made steady progress for the next two weeks. In a touching videotape made just four days after surgery, Baby Fae was seen yawning and stretching, seemingly a normal infant in every respect. By the second week she was no longer dependent on a supplementary oxygen supply or intravenous feeding. (Read "Baby Fae Stuns...
...brute force to win the day and make people feel good about their country. This fantasy of an all-righteous America fills movie theaters even as it fuels presidential elections. Who is Indiana Jones if not the movie-serial avatar of White House Reagan, leaping up from near fatal assaults with a wave and a joke? Who is Superman if not the Krypton Gipper, fighting for truth, justice and voluntary school prayer? At the end of a campaign year that played like one long half-time pageant, two entertaining movies arrive with a complementary pair of star figures...