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Magnesium Grenades. That was all the help the police needed, and at 4 a.m. last Thursday, 104 hours after the mini-revolt began, they acted. Magnesium grenades were thrown through the chapel windows, temporarily stunning and blinding everyone inside. The outer doors were quietly unlocked, and the lock on the inner door was cut with acetylene torches, a process that took only ten seconds. Fifteen marines burst through, disarming the convicts before they could fire a shot...
...stopped short of the supra-radical operation, in which lymph nodes under the breastbone are removed. These are less likely to be involved in situations similar to the First Lady's, in which the cancerous lump was on the outer, upper aspect of the breast, toward the arm. The argument over the best way to treat breast cancer cases like Betty Ford's is likely to continue long after she recuperates...
...injected human albumen tagged with radioactive iodine-131 or technetium into an arm vein. The radiant particles circulated through the small blood vessels of Nixon's lungs, and a scintillation scanner took an electronic "picture" of their distribution. Nixon's scan showed a blank area on the outer side of the right lung: the clot had settled there in a small artery, leaving an area of dead tissue where no blood is circulated to take up oxygen. Then the doctors ran a second test to determine whether Nixon's respiratory passages were open to this area...
...Passing Fad. Why the vogue for underwear turned outer? For one thing, Ts are relatively cheap (ranging from $3.25 to a top of $14.95); they also eliminate ties and the button crunching of laundries. And as Eloise Laws, 28, a black show-biz beauty shopping on Long Island, put it, "I chose the design, the color, the style. I feel like I created this one myself...
Prison guards and Texas Rangers also had a plan. They suddenly blasted the entire group with water from high pressure hoses, effectively separating the outer hostages from the rest. But a hose ruptured, giving the convicts a chance to open fire with their pistols. The officers returned the fire and a one-sided gun battle broke...