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After being gunned down in front of his Northwest Washington house on January 30, Senator John Stennis, 71, was well on the mend. "The old man is in good spirits," said one of his medics at Walter Reed General Hospital. "He's still got plenty of fire. He blew his stack when he heard about the Arabs killing the American ambassador!" Stennis will have to spend another month or so in the hospital before he is ready for discharge, but he is already thinking about Senate business. At his suggestion, Senator Stuart Symington presented a resolution on committee funding...
Katy's emotional world does not mend appreciably when her son brings home from Harvard an actress with whom he has been sleeping. This free and sexy spirit promptly propositions Jeff, and in his menopausal dither he runs off with her. It is a very short fling. After 25 platonic minutes he is back home, ready for a reconciliation...
...equipment has done much to keep people out of the hospital, but there are still some bone-cracking problems. With the spreading popularity of higher, more rigid boots, orthopedists report an increase in "boot top" fractures. These mishaps are more serious and take longer to mend than the more common ski injuries, a simple fracture of the anklebone or a low-level spiral fracture of the tibia and fibula...
...John Gey's 18th Century original. The Begger's Opera, to its adaptation by Bertoit Brecht and Kurt Weill in the twenties, comes through the excellent Leverett House production unbesmirched. The Old Library Theatre sees a bit of the ultra-violence as the Knife spills the opera's good Mend freely. Here comes a big, but there goes the neighborhood...
...hospital where she is a patient. "Nothing applies" she scrawls across the battery of psychological tests they give her. Her husband Carter (Adam Roarke) is a pompous young hack who makes motorcycle movies and discusses the auteur theory. His producer B.Z. (Anthony Perkins) tries both to meddle with and mend their broken marriage. Maria has already had one child-Kate, herself disturbed-and aborted a second. In her sickness and despair, she clings to Carter, who humiliates her with the kind of bitter brutality she usually heaps on herself...