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...there was at least the start of a clearing up. To stage center stepped Dr. Dennis O'Leary of George Washington University Hospital, a gentle, cool customer, another instant media star. Secret Service Agent Timothy J. McCarthy was hit in the stomach, but doing well. D.C. Policeman Thomas K. Delahanty was hit in the shoulder and neck; his condition was stable. A .22-cal. bullet passed through Jim Brady's brain. And the President? He became his chest for the moment: the bullet entered here, bounced off this, settled in that. There was "oxygenation" and a "thoracotomy...
...Brady, 40, through an admixture of diligence, drive and affability, had parlayed 19 years of handling public relations work?including stints with the Defense Department, Senator William Roth and Candidate John Connally?into the plum of his profession, presidential press secretary. Timothy McCarthy, 31, the son of a Chicago policeman, joined the Secret Service in 1972 and two years ago won assignment to the prestigious presidential protection detail...
...allowing police to halt oil tanker trucks on the highways and demand to see papers that prove the origin of the load. Meanwhile, several oil firms have engaged an outfit called Oilfield Security Patrol Inc. to keep heavy guard over their well sites. Company President Jack Gibson, an ex-policeman, is afraid that curbing the thievery could get rough. Says he: "When a guy is sitting there with $8,000 worth of hot oil in his truck, he is not going to let someone talk...
...extended to include the I detective, an isosceles triangle with points ranging from the Kremlin to Leningrad to an obscure island named Staten in the strange and hazardous city of New S York. In the process, Smith provides a Dostoyevskian cast of | characters: William Kirwill, a renegade Catholic policeman visiting Moscow to find the murderer of his radical brother; Andreev, a dwarf who can sculpt personalities out of carrion; Zoya, the gymnast, Arkady's humorless wife who parrots jawbreaking propaganda ("So it is shown that childless or one-child families, superficially suitable to working parents in the urban centers...
...those who hear them and on those who make them as well. Jimmy Carter never fully recovered from his reference to Polish lusts for the future in a mistranslated speech in 1977, nor was Chicago's Mayor Daley ever quite the same after assuring the public that "the policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder." Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Spiro Agnew, Gerald Ford, all made terrible gaffes, with Ford perhaps making the most unusual ("Whenever I can I always watch the Detroit Tigers on radio"). Yet this is no modern phenomenon...