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...after four years of pleas, was admitted to diving school?unofficially, it was for whites only?where classmates taunted him with racial slurs and death threats. In 1966, while Brashear was serving on the U.S.S. Hoist, a loose steel pipe careered across the deck and crushed his lower left leg. Intensive rehab after the leg was amputated helped persuade Navy doctors to clear him for diving?although he had to prove he could climb with 136 kg on his back to simulate diving tanks. After Men of Honor premiered, Brashear was deluged with letters from amputees. He answered every...
...after four years of pleas, was admitted to diving school--unofficially, it was for whites only--where classmates taunted him with racial slurs and death threats. In 1966, while Brashear was serving on the U.S.S. Hoist, a loose steel pipe careered across the deck and crushed his lower left leg. Intensive rehab after the leg was amputated helped persuade Navy doctors to clear him for diving--although he had to prove he could climb with 300 lbs. on his back to simulate diving tanks. After Men of Honor premiered, Brashear was deluged with letters from amputees. He answered every...
...tight frame. Or they'll be grouped, at sardine density, to form a cacophonous crowd. The only actors granted a little light, and thus a bit of traditional movie glamour, are Cummings and the heroine, Arlene Dahl, whose gown Alton lends a silky luster. The angles are, of course, lower than low, giving the viewers the impression they are the masses staring up at these puffed-up figures of power, these gargantuan gargoyles...
...Will This Marriage Last? A wedding-season guide for handicapping the newlyweds. A variety of factors can lower the odds of divorce to 20%, or raise...
...ambulance was struck just as he finished putting three wounded people into the Tyre-bound ambulance. Moments later, the second, an empty ambulance, was struck. The three civilians - a mother, her son and his five-year-old child - were seriously injured, with the son losing his right lower leg. The Red Cross medics were lightly wounded...