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...drive for school desegregation by failing to support busing with sufficient enthusiasm, Richardson was notably successful at HEW. After last year's election he was picked to succeed Melvin R. Laird as Defense Secretary but held that job only three months before Nixon chose him in May to repair the Watergate damage as Attorney General...
...cited Kennedy for negligent driving and ordered him to appear at a court hearing this week. For Pamela Kelly, however, the agony was just beginning. The Coast Guard flew her to Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, where three specialists summoned by the Kennedy family tried for three hours to repair the damage. By the end of the week she began to have some feeling in one of her legs, an encouraging sign. But doctors said it would be several weeks before they would know whether she could ever walk again...
...flood damaged only one major work of art beyond repair: Cimabue's Crucifix (Church of Santa Croce...
Super-powerful laser beams have been used for more than a decade by eye surgeons to repair detached retinas. More recently, lasers have also been used to destroy certain skin cancers. But the Boston group is the first to use a laser for vocal-cord surgery. Dr. Geza J. Jako of B.U.'s otolaryngology department began using the device-developed in cooperation with American Optical Co. Research Laboratories-on dogs in 1967; Dr. M. Stuart Strong, head of the department, pioneered its use on humans two years...
...other. "We were sitting there looking like an Indian tribe, with blankets around us," explained Mr. Buchanan, "and I said, Tm going home.' " Others were ready for more. "We were paid $1.65 an hour, and I'll probably have to pay a surgeon God knows what to repair my legs," said Mrs. Robert ("Oatsie") Charles, who stood on the party set from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. "But I'd do it again if I could stand...