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...arrived in Spain from England after a successful tour climaxed by a sellout performance at London's Palladium. The tour, he told reporters in Madrid, had been a reassuring test of his recovery from the back injury he got last March when he fell from the stage in Pasadena, Calif., during a celebration of his 50th year in show business...
...Somersaults is one of those plays (Our Town is another) for which the audience projects the essential scenery, place and time out of its own bittersweet memory. Rodion, the fuss-budgety doctor, and his patient Lidya, an actress come down to circus cashier, could as well be in Pasadena as Riga. The true location of each is an almost impermeable condition of the solitude to which life has delivered them. The difference is that Rodion defies his loneliness from inside a husk of willful indifference to women, while Lidya denies hers with fantasies and deceptions...
...Pasadena, Calif...
...group were sent to Evangelist Billy Graham and Presidential Candidate Jimmy Carter, among others, threatening them with death if they did not intercede to free Ervil. The Secret Service traced the letters back to two of Ervil's wives, who had rented a post office box in Pasadena in the society's name...
...discovering the mixup. Whatever its cause, the grim Suburban story is by no means unique. In June jurors awarded a record $7 million in damages to the family of Carolyn Ann Lord, who died from being given nitrous oxide instead of oxygen at the Southmore Medical Center in Pasadena, Texas. Four years ago, 14 deaths resulted from a similar incident in Sudbury, Ont. That led Canada to create strict new national regulations governing the testing of such hospital pipes. The U.S. has no similar regulation...