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...ring finger of his left hand, ricocheted and grazed his right arm. The other blasted into his abdomen, passing completely through his body and ripping up the Pope's intestines but narrowly missing his pancreas, abdominal aorta and spine. For 5 hr. 25 min., as rumors flew around the world and hospital patients in bathrobes mingled with Italian dignitaries and journalists to exchange shocked speculation, surgeons labored to take out several pieces of the Pope's intestine and perform a colostomy, which would remove wastes outside his body (see box). Giancarlo Castiglioni, chief of surgery at the hospital...
After two aborted attempts to escape from the camp, Mitterrand finally succeeded in 1941. Returning to Occupied France, he organized a small group of former P.O.W.s who furnished forged papers to members of the Resistance. It was then that he first tangled with Charles de Gaulle. When Mitterrand flew to Algiers to meet with the Free French leader, De Gaulle asked him if he would agree to merge his small P.O.W. group with a larger unit under the command of one of the general's nephews. Mitterrand refused, and De Gaulle curtly dismissed him. It was the beginning...
...second time with Syria's President, Hafez Assad, to impress upon him the need for restraint while trying to coax concessions that might break the negotiating impasse. Later he hopped aboard an executive Air Force jet for another shuttle to Israel. At week's end he flew to Saudi Arabia for consultations. Lips sealed on the progress of his explorations, Habib told reporters at the airport in Damascus: "It's still silent movies, boys...
Aristotle, says Terres, unaware of migration, thought birds hibernated in winter, while Ice landers believed that the whooper swan, after nesting, flew off to the moon. Closer at hand, songbirds poke crushed ants, rich in formic acid, into their coats to remove para sites; the common blue jay is obeyed by fleeing deer when he pipes his warnings; and the red-eyed vireo can give 22,000 encores a day of his song...
Although Harvard doesn't have a tradition of giving national power Penn State a run for their money, the Crimson did well with the small contingent it flew down to State College, Pa. The women shattered two old school records and posted several personal bests during the two-day meet...