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...Hubbard a World War II hero who miraculously cured himself of nearly fatal combat wounds, as he claimed. Hubbard never saw combat. After his discharge from the Navy in 1946, he was granted 40% disability pay for arthritis, bursitis and conjunctivitis. He continued to collect this pay long after he claimed to have discovered the secret of how to cure such ailments...
...show by an American sculptor in years. Smith died in 1965, when his pickup truck spun off a country road near his studio in Bolton Landing, an isolated little town in the Adirondacks. He was 58 and in the prime of his sculptural career. Only Jackson Pollock's fatal car crash nine years earlier subtracted so much, so soon, from American art. No sculptor of similar talent has appeared in America since. If one measures a man's achievement by emotional range, formal vitality, material energy and historical ambition-the often derided "phallic" virtues of ambitious art-then...
...protection of minors, in reality these bills have been served up by the New Right in part to deter abortion. The sad irony is that, in inducing many teenagers to forego contraception, they might well increase the number of abortions--and particularly the number of dangerous and even fatal ones--performed by quacks...
...miles north, in Hillsboro, Ore., detectives were keeping "open minds" in their investigation into the death of Patricia Bennett, 31. A campus security officer at Portland Community College, Bennett died last week after swallowing one or more Anacin-3 capsules laced with cyanide. Her death was the first fatal poisoning linked to pain relievers since seven people in the Chicago area died between Sept. 29 and Oct. 1. Meanwhile, American Home Products is voluntarily withdrawing all Anacin-3 capsules not in tamper-resistant containers...
Meanwhile, Turkish judicial authorities are probing Agca's role in the fatal shooting of a liberal newspaper editor in Istanbul in 1979; Agca was convicted of the murder. The Turkish government also requested the extradition from Bulgaria of another Turk, Bekir Çelenk, whom Agca has reportedly accused of offering him $1.25 million to kill the Pope...