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...aspire to anything!" At a National Organization for Women press conference in Washington, Democratic Leader Sharon Pratt Dixon was so carried away that she started to pronounce the name of the head of the ticket as "Walter Ferra..." She corrected it to Walter Mondale amid a gale of laughter...
Just the previous day, Stagg had warned that a gale would strike on June 5, and Eisenhower had reluctantly ordered a 24-hour postponement of Dday. The first troopships, already at sea, had to be called back. But now that the storm was actually upon them, Stagg offered what he called "a gleam of hope for you, sir." The next day, June 6, there would be some clearing of the skies, a break of perhaps 36 hours, no more. The cloud ceiling over the Normandy beaches would be about 3,000 feet, the waves only about three feet high...
...side of the consulting room. Working with physicians, Lax explains the complexities of a radical bone-marrow transplant technique that is now proving 50% effective in treating some types of leukemia. The result is a model of medical writing for the layman. The astonishing procedure, used by Dr. Robert Gale and his colleagues at the U.C.L.A. Medical Center, is described with uncommon clarity, as is the ordeal of a young woman whose cancer was obliterated but who later died of another disease. More neutral and less self-consciously uplifting than Pepper's book, Life and Death on 10 West...
...wasn't as easy as it sounds. The 2000-meter Charles River races Saturday started out hellish and got better, but only by comparison, with gale-force winds and choppy water proving a test more of strength than of technique...
...days after his last college game. Tightfisted (at first he collected the tickets himself) and tough-minded (he ran up a 73-0 victory to take the 1940 league title from the Washington Redskins), "Papa Bear" Halas developed an ongoing phalanx of stars including Sid Luckman, Johnny Lujack and Gale Sayers. In his 40-year career as head coach, he earned the N.F.L. record for most victories, with 320 regular-season winning games, and led his team to six of its eight championship titles. "I play to win," he once remarked. "I shall always play to win. I speak...