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...state's case against a Negro woman charged with impeding a lawful arrest. "If Rena Frye had not interfered with the police officer when they were trying to arrest her son Marquette," Rayford Fountain said, "all we would have today would be a hoy with a slight scar on his forehead, a boy who had experienced a slight jab to his stomach, the effects of which he probably wouldn't remember by this time anyway...
...Force One hummed Texas-ward at 31,000 ft., the President naturally fell to jawing with reporters about his health. "I feel like I had a baseball right here in my right side,"he said. This time, though, he was content merely to point to the most celebrated scar since Jenkins' Ear.* What's more, allowed Lyndon Johnson, he is unhappy with his strict diet, begun in August (few starches and fats, no liquor) aimed at trimming his weight down to 187 lbs. When he complains about it to Lady Bird, she retorts...
...patient lost 96 lbs. in little more than a year, and his leg ulcer healed. Then he developed a hernia at the operation scar, so the surgeons went in again. Since his weight loss had been only moderate, they cut out a foot of jejunum. That did it. The clerical worker is now down to a merely rotund 165 lbs.; he is back at his office desk, able to tie his shoelaces, and happy as never before...
Many parents are outraged. They ar gue that young girls should not wear any kind of earrings, let alone a type that might permanently scar their ear lobes. Other parents point out that in order to hide the hole, most of the girls wear their earrings all the time, even when they look ridiculous. Comments the headmistress of a boarding school in Lake Forest, Ill.: "Earrings are fine for parties and dates, but not for bending over algebra...
When Dr. Newman's team operated they were startled to find not a partial obstruction but a complete blocklage of the aorta. Scar tissue was there as they had suspected, but it had evidently formed slowly, in successive layers. While it was forming, a dozen minor blood vessels on each side of the chest had had time to enlarge and supply "collateral circulation" to the lower part of the body (see diagram). Over the years, the blood vessels had quadrupled their capacity; they had shunted enough blood around the aorta block to keep Gormley alive...