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...distress, and he complained that his legs kept "going to sleep." His blood pressure had soared to 240/140. Doctors could feel no pulse in his legs. Chief Surgeon Melvin Newman and his assistants at N.J.H. figured that their patient was suffering from a partial obstruction of his descending aorta- scar tissue, perhaps, from his knife wound...
...they will go mad or commit suicide. The majority who claim this are married women who have had as many children as they want. Few of those who see their pregnancies through ever suffer from mental breakdowns; similarly, few who get legal abortions are left with a severe psychological scar. But psychiatrists and other doctors tend to agree that women who desperately seek illegal abortions almost inevitably suffer from a "postabortion hangover." Says Manhattan Psychoanalyst Leah Schaefer: "Sometimes a woman feels so guilty that she blames everything, especially a subsequent difficult birth, on her having had an illegal abortion...
...province, the Viet Cong beheaded a village chief and hacked off the arm of the chief's twelve-year-old daughter. They also took the chief's six-year-old son, laid a rifle across his bare back and fired it several times, leaving a twelve-inch scar. In the same province two months ago, the Viet Cong conscripted 125 village men for forced labor; when 25 villagers refused to go along, the Viet Cong shot them. At a village between Saigon and Dalat last week, a Viet Cong soldier lectured peasants. "Tell your daughters," he said, "that...
Resplendent in a freshly pressed uniform, a stocky, scar-faced man wearing brigadier general's rank marched stiffly through the ruined doorway of the Dominican Republic's Congressional Assembly Hall. He was a Dominican national hero, Antonio Imbert Barreras, 44, one of the two surviving assassins of Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Honored with a general's commission, he had been living quietly in the background. Now he had come as the anti-Communist head of a new five-man loyalist junta, replacing the three soldiers installed by Brigadier General Wessin y Wessin a fortnight ago, hoping...
Among others, Joe Palooka has survived 34 years as a world heavyweight boxing champion with nary a scar to show for it on his boyish face. Buck Rogers, the spaceman who confronted atom bombs as early as 1939, no longer plies the interplanetary routes. But Flash Gordon still zips through space at supersonic speed on the trail of highflying gangsters, while Prince Valiant moves at a snail's pace through meticulously drawn medieval sagas. And the whole idiom has been parodied by Li'I Abner, in which a collection of bulbous-nosed, ham-handed hillbillies makes monkeys...