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...release. Finally she was informed that the High People's Court of Hopeh province had granted her request "in the spirit of humanitarian-ism." The Air Force made a plane available to fly McCann back to the U.S. But doctors told his wife that he was dying of lung cancer, gave the old China hand only "a few months" to live...
...classroom, but he carefully chose the word "God-awful'' to describe her first play. He liked some of her sketches better, particularly Going Whose Way?, a take-off on The Bells of St. Mary's. "My favorite lin^," she remembers, "is when this nun was in the iron lung and the priest asks her, 'Isn't this an iron lung?' and she says, 'I'd hoped you wouldn't notice...
Died. Brazilla Carroll Reece, 71, veteran conservative Republican Representative from the Tennessee hill country, whose chairmanship of the G.O.P. National Committee in 1946 helped win the party its first control of Congress in 16 years; of lung cancer; in Bethesda...
...fails has something to do with "It can't happen to me," the incarnation that prevents mankind from worrying itself to death. Chanting this, the smoker goes on puffing while aware of cigarette-induced lung cancer, the driver goes on speeding while listening to reports of highway fatalities, and thieves go on stealing while thieves are being punished. The illogical basis of faith in "It can't happen to me" is the fact that "it," be it prison, collision, or cancer does not happen to everyone. And logical or not, this incantation, more than anything else, is what frustrates...
...home in Powell, Wyo. when one of his high school classmates accidentally plugged him in the back. The .22-cal. slug slammed into his left shoulder, about three in. left of his spine. At War Memorial Hospital, the family doctor, Ray Christensen, found that Bruce's left lung had been punctured. He put a tube into the boy's chest, drew off blood and reinflated the lung. But Dr. Christensen, to his puzzlement, could not find the bullet...