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...intestinal obstruction due to an old 'burntout' ileitis . . . The heart is not enlarged . . . The size of the heart's shadow [is] unchanged in comparison with the films made during the past ten years . . . The electrocardiogram shows the same residual changes of a well-healed heart-muscle scar which have been present since recovery from the attack last year." Ike's weight, 163 when he checked out of Walter Reed last June...
...stealthy Malayan jungle war against the British, slim, scar-faced Yang Kuo slipped in and out of villages and rubber plantations under a dozen aliases, and boasted to Communist comrades that five British imperialists had died for each of his assumed names. From rain-forest hideaways, he trained and indoctrinated terrorists with such skulking zeal that he rose to the post of secretary of his state committee and finally to the job of vice secretary-general of the Malayan Communist Party...
...soap-opera elements are neatly mixed by Novelist Howard; skilled writing and a mother-in-law's eye for weakness of character make this novel a cucumber-sandwich cut above the average summer reading for women. It is one more study in the strange and terrifying fissures that scar the once sturdy heart of the British middle class. The means employed are female. Yet the reader with an attentive eye can see, as did Poet Wystan Auden, how "the crack in the teacup opens a lane to the land of the dead...
...Texas, three years after the Civil War, and the lone figure moving across the vast plain is none other than lean, leathery, disenchanted John Wayne, still wearing bits of his Confederate uniform, still looking for trouble. Trouble finds him. One day, while John's back is turned, Chief Scar and his wild Comanches swoop down and massacre his relatives, carrying off two young girls for their own fell purposes...
...kidnaped girls is raped by four braves and killed off early in the picture. The other (Natalie Wood), when finally found, proves to be a contented member of Chief Scar's harem. Wayne is so annoyed that he tries to shoot her dead and is only thwarted by an Indian attack...