Word: reeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After being gunned down in front of his Northwest Washington house on January 30, Senator John Stennis, 71, was well on the mend. "The old man is in good spirits," said one of his medics at Walter Reed General Hospital. "He's still got plenty of fire. He blew his stack when he heard about the Arabs killing the American ambassador!" Stennis will have to spend another month or so in the hospital before he is ready for discharge, but he is already thinking about Senate business. At his suggestion, Senator Stuart Symington presented a resolution on committee funding...
...players are growing restless. "If there is another strike," says Pete Rose, the $100,000 rightfielder for the Cincinnati Reds, "the Players Association won't get my support. Last year's strike cost me $7,000 and a chance for 200 hits." Added Atlanta Braves Pitcher Ron Reed: "It's the same old Mickey Mouse stuff. I don't know what's going...
SITUATION COMEDY is the most banal of American art forms, and unfortunately one of the more popular. Why is anyone interested in Donna Reed's dinner parties or Archie Bunker's poker games? Perhaps because the genre exploits all the most offensive conventions about American families--men are henpecked and boorish, women are hysterical--and viewers get a chance to laugh at their spouses behind their backs...
Lying gravely wounded in the intensive-care section of Washington's Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Mississippi Senator John Stennis signaled for a pad and pencil. Although a respirator mask covered his face, he scribbled a brief note to President Nixon, apologizing for his inability to serve as moderator at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington last week...
...team of eight doctors operated on Stennis at Walter Reed for more than six hours, working primarily to repair the damage of one bullet that penetrated his stomach, pancreas and colon. They feared bacterial infection from the colon and harm from digestive enzymes flowing from the open pancreas into the abdominal cavity. The other bullet caused only a flesh wound in his left thigh. While his condition remained "very serious" and the prognosis for recovery was described as "guarded," his good physical condition from years of exercise, nonsmoking and almost no drinking was a factor in his favor...