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...sizzling day last summer, Mabel and Rafael Valdes packed their two daughters and Mabel's grandmother into the family's Ford Explorer and headed down Highway I-75 for the 2-hr. drive from Coral Gables to Naples, Fla. But on the way, according to Mabel and her attorney, the tread tore loose--"like peeling a banana," says Mabel--from one of the Explorer's rear Firestone tires, causing the sport-utility vehicle to spin out of control, slam into a guardrail and flip over. The accident badly injured Valdes and her family and left her grandmother dead...
...lions seemed a tad catty on a night when the journalists' row stood visibly empty and the networks stood down - those watching Bradley, and then keynoter Rep. Harold Ford Jr., had to flip to stay ahead of the Teddy and Caroline tour of the convention-hall news desks. For Gore, who has many minds still to change, this night of challenging praise may prove bedeviling. Luckily for him, much of America wasn't watching...
...scene orchestrated with all the panache only a seasoned show-biz operation like his White House could muster. They found a place in the heartland populated by blue-collar "working families" - this town of 23,000 next to Lake Erie is home to Monroe shock absorbers and a Ford parts plant - with a picturesque town square. The backdrop was a City Hall that could have been shipped in from Central Properties (with a church off the right), and organizers rounded up some 10,000 people who sweated, and in some cases fainted, in the steamy midwestern heat. Although...
...While Ford's doctors are optimistic about their octogenarian patient, who has been an active golfer and public speaker, they haven't escaped criticism for their missed first diagnosis. But casting blame won't do anyone much good. What the former President's experience should teach us is the importance of recognizing stroke symptoms and getting help fast...
RECOVERING. FORMER PRESIDENT GERALD FORD, 87, from at least one mild stroke following an upbeat appearance at the Republican National Convention; in Philadelphia. Doctors also drained an abscess in Ford's swollen tongue, caused by a rare bacterial infection...