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AILING. Michael Jackson, 25, top pop-record and video performer (Thriller); from second degree scalp and back burns after an exploding smokebomb canister ignited his hair during the filming of a Pepsi-Cola commercial. A Los Angeles doctor who treated the singer said that he might need reconstructive surgery...
...children at home, and a number of teachers insisted on wearing surgical gloves. The reason for the ostracism: the child has been infected since birth with herpes, which is not only the source of her mental and physical disabilities but also causes the sores that break out on her scalp about every six weeks. In Sacramento County, Calif., a 3½-year-old retarded boy with herpes suffered similar humiliations at his school. "A bus driver refused to have him on her bus, and several staff members requested transfers," reports Gerald Peterson, assistant superintendent for special schools and services...
They make you want to pace the floor, bite your nails and put on a pair of skates Harvard men's hockey Coach Bill Cleary just tugs at his scalp...
...macabre final scene last Friday evening, televised by closed circuit to more than 30 reporters, Evans was secured in the electric chair, known as "Yellow Mama," at the Holman prison near Atmore, Ala. Two guards pulled straps around his shaved head, attached electrodes to his scalp and leg, and left him rigid in the chair, looking small and pale...
Congress was in full cry after Burford's scalp, and the war whoops were not coming just from the political opposition. House G.O.P. Leader Robert Michel and Senator Robert Stafford, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, called for her ouster. Other Republicans wrote to Reagan urging that Burford be dumped in favor of a politically independent scientist. By week's end White House aides were busy drawing up a list of eligible replacements, and the hints had become broadsides. Reagan's aides had reached the conclusion that Burford was a political liability...