Word: parklands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Though her mother Lois Sue, a waitress in Cumby, had first noticed the small bumps on her daughter's buttocks when Stormie was three months old, it was not until last summer that she found a doctor who would take them seriously. Dr. David Bilheimer, medical director at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, took one look and, he says, "I suspected what we had right away...
...President slumped over on the seat of his car, blood pouring from a wound in his right temple. He was rushed to the emergency room of Parkland Hospital, where he died about 2 p.m. (EST). Gov. Connally was also shot and rushed to an emergency operation...
...Kennedy and Connally could not have been hit by the same bullets. A nearly pristine bullet was found in Parkland Hospital, apparently from the gurney used to convey Connally to surgery. But the bullet is said to have gone through the President's neck and smashed into Connally's back, a gruesome process which should, according to FBI tests, have damaged the bullet. Thompson relied heavily on these tests in forming the theories used in his book Six Seconds in Dallas...
...after Nov. 22, the record simply went blank. An anguished and fascinating process of canonization ensued. The television networks focused their gaze on the story almost continuously from Parkland Memorial Hospital to Arlington National Cemetery, as if in professional tribute to the first President who understood the medium and performed perfectly in it. In sanctifying his memory, videotape became Kennedy's Parson Weems. The reality of what the nation had lost was preserved with unprecedented, unthinkable vividness: his holographic ghost moving and talking inside every television set, that American dreamboat campaigning through the primaries among leaping and squealing adolescent...
Watt's resignation Sunday is not likely to change the Reagan Administration's policies--"unproductive" parkland will continue to be sold for strip mines and leased for oil drilling, and the government will continue to divest itself of the country's remaining wilderness areas. No, the Administration will probably stay committed to the despoiling of the continent's coral reefs, forests, and wildlife sanctuaries...