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...haunt the 1972 campaign in a new and unpredictable way. With a resilience that was almost Snopesian, Wallace accomplished martyrdom and resurrection in a matter of hours. His strong, ex-boxer's body took four or five .38-cal. slugs, one of which remained planted in his spinal canal. The attack endowed Wallace with a new kind of stature. Although his doctors gave him only a marginal chance of walking again, editorial writers were quick to recall that F.D.R. campaigned with his legs paralyzed...
Died. Peter Morland Churchill, 63, top British agent with the French Resistance during World War II; of spinal cancer; in Cannes, France. Churchill made four clandestine trips (two by submarine, two by parachute) into German-occupied France. On his fourth mission, he and his aide, Odette Sansom, were captured by the Gestapo and tortured. They were spared from execution because the Germans believed they were married and related to Winston Churchill (they were neither). Reunited at war's end, they did marry, and their wartime exploits were made the subject of the 1951 movie Odette...
Suggestion. While hospitalized with a painful spinal problem in 1969, Bingham had complained to his wife about their problem of trying to make ends meet on his modest annual salary of about $5,000. She suggested that they "go to the Russians." Whereupon he wrote out a note stating his name, rank and naval assignment as an antisubmarine warfare and torpedo specialist at the British naval base in Portsmouth, and Maureen delivered it to the Russian embassy in London. After he left the hospital, the Soviets invited him to London for a meeting. Over vodka, they gave...
...Spinal Anesthesia...
Today's operation--an open repair suture of Bok's gastrocnemius tendon-- was done under spinal anesthesia because Bok had eaten early this morning. As a result, Bok was awake during the operation and could communicate with Dr. Lowell...