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...gauze of dusk forms a cluster of stars-no, a spider's web -the filigree work of predestination, trapping every animal who will pass through this forest. A fox sprints over the tall grass, fear in her eyes, an infant fox dangling from her clenched teeth. A gunshot sounds; a flock of birds rises from the grass. The fox is dead, her infant an orphan. Happy summer, boys and girls! This is the new Disney cartoon feature...
DIED. Roger Wheeler, 55, multimillionaire entrepreneur in oil, minerals, real estate and sporting ventures, also chairman and largest stockholder of the Telex Corp., a Tulsa-based computer and electronics firm with 1980 revenues of $186.5 million; of a gunshot to the head, fired at point-blank range by an unknown assailant, as he got into his car after a regular weekly golf game; in Tulsa. The owner of World Jai Alai in Miami and former owner of Hartford (Conn.) Jai Alai, Wheeler had testified publicly about alleged underworld involvement in the sport...
Polish Catholics also wept at the sound of the pope's voice yesterday, and in Krakow, where he was once archbishop 300,000 faithful prayed for his recovery from gunshot wounds...
Says a Washington, D.C., surgeon, an ex pert in bullet injuries: "A gunshot wound to the chest is always serious, especially in a 70-year-old. I am sure that Reagan's doctors were a lot more concerned at the time than they acknowledged...
...blood loss, O'Leary agrees it was large (almost four quarts) but says the rate of loss is more important than the vol ume. Reagan's blood loss was steady, not gushing, and doctors had no trouble in compensating with transfusions. The ma jority of gunshot victims come into a hos pital much worse off, O'Leary says. In fact, he contends that the President would probably have been all right even if treat ment had been delayed by as much as 20 minutes. Fortunately, Ronald Reagan and the nation did not have to test that judgment...