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...fall, Waldrep crushed his fifth vertebra and bruised the spinal cord. At Birmingham's University Hospital, doctors were able to rebuild the damaged vertebra with a segment from his hip bone, and after intensive physical therapy Waldrep regained some use of his hands, arms and upper body. But he remained immobile from the waist down...
...back." Republicans nonetheless had reason to savor their good fortune. One of the cheeriest of all was former Governor Harold Stassen, the boy wonder of Minnesota politics in 1938, before his party was routed by Humphrey's D.F.I Vowed the never-give-up Stassen: "We are going to rebuild the Republican Party in Minnesota." Stassen, 71, was so buoyed by his old party's rebirth that he promptly announced he would run again for the presidency in 1980, his seventh such campaign...
...city's business and civic leaders are trying to rebuild the city's image with a $4.3 million promotion campaign. TV, radio and magazine ads have been prepared around the slogan, THERE'S A WHOLE NEW GENERATION IN CLEVELAND, AND WE'RE BUILDING A WHOLE NEW TOWN. But the current wave of bad news has caused one of the campaign's chief fund raisers, Art Modell, owner of the Cleveland Browns football team, to temper his boosterism. "Let's face it," say: Modell, "you can't talk about the great cultural assets...
...produced on a bare-bones budget, the new show is going first class. (Estimated budget: $18 million, three times the cost of the original.) "This time," says Margulies, "the network said, 'Name it -you guys are king of the mountain.' " Over $1 million was spent just to rebuild Henning near Los Angeles: during Roots 2, viewers will see the town grow from a dusty rural outpost into an industrialized modern city. Says Margulies: "Finally I had the money to shoot in an honest-to-God cotton field...
...great buildings of the world." Yet its architect, a Roman Catholic named Giles Scott, was a 22-year-old unknown when he chosen from among 102 competitors in 1903. Later Scott go on to design London's Waterloo Bridge and the massive Battersea power station, and to rebuild the bomb-gutted House of Commons after World War II. But the cathedral remained his masterpiece, a modern vision of Gothic that is uncluttered and open. "Don't let your eyes dwell on the soaring arches or tracery of windows," he told visitors. "Look at my spaces." Scott, later knighted...