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There, in his fantasy, Castro will welcome him as a hero. But skyjacking is self-defeating, an example of what psychiatrists call "the Indian coup phenomenon." Explains Dr. Siegel: "You scalp yourself. After that, what have...
...women were capable of incredible cruelty. When Colonel William Crawford, a friend of George Washington's, was captured in 1782, it was the Indian women who pelted him with live coals, jabbed him with burning poles and, after a warrior had torn off the prisoner's scalp with his teeth, poured a shovelful of live coals onto his exposed skull while he was still alive. Even so, says O'Meara, "beneath her streak of savagery the Indian woman frequently revealed a tenderness and compassion that touched even the casehardened trader." As for the mountain men, they...
...spokesman for the Athletic Office said yesterday that plainclothes police will circulate among the crowd outside the Stadium Saturday. But Watson said the Administration does not intend "to try to find criminals. Heavens no, we aren't out to scalp people," he said...
During one such gathering last month, they succeeded. Fink's peace seemed on the verge of blowing up after one cop bloodied the scalp of a yippie who was resisting arrest. But the next day when 150 Workshop demonstrators marched into St. Mark's Place seeking revenge, Fink was there to supervise them, along with five of his men. For all their noisy speeches, they could not persuade the spectators to turn against the police. As a benevolent Fink looked on, the rally soon fizzled out. Even when 20% of Fink's men called in sick during...
...doctors in Brantford, Ont., the mark was the identifying surface symptom of a rare and frightening condition called the Sturge-Weber syndrome. The stains are caused by an excessive growth of blood vessels, and those in the skin are matched by others under the scalp and on the surface of the brain. In a few weeks, or at most months, a child with such a mark develops disabling seizures and convulsions. Even if these can be controlled by drugs, the dosage must be so heavy that by the time he is ten or twelve he will be oversedated...