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...still alive." But, added the report, "his condition was hopeless, and the extraordinary efforts of the doctors to save him could not help but to have been unavailing." One bullet had hit near the base of the back of the President's neck slightly to the right of the spine, traveled slightly downward, ripped the windpipe, and shot out the front of his neck at almost the same speed at which it hit; it nicked a corner of the knot on his necktie. That wound, says the Warren Commission, lethal." But the second bullet that hit bored into the right...
...Jellyfish. When Parliament adjourned, the rebel Ministers took their case to the people, defying Banda's ban on public meetings. Banda defended himself by charging that the rebels "tried to hire a witch doctor" to murder him. Snorted Banda: "I am a Prime Minister with a spine, not a jellyfish kind of Prime Minister who is afraid of his subordinates - so now they have to kill...
Proud & Explicit. On down the western spine of South America De Gaulle traveled, seeing the same enormous, tightly policed crowds, plowing doggedly through the same man-killing schedule, everywhere voicing France's deep interest in Latin American "independence"-and receiving the same polite response. Colombia was supposed to be a high point of the trip. Its aristocracy is oriented toward Europe. But trade with France amounts to less than $17 million a year v. $500 million with the U.S., and the country's leaders are nothing if not realistic...
...well, Powell has long been the unchallenged master of the jazz ballad. The extraordinary virtuosity and spine-chilling passion that gained him that title years ago were only flickeringly evident at his Birdland opening. But his audience vociferously agreed that he was still a master, his performance a giant step up from limbo...
...lucky to be alive, let alone playing golf. A onetime caddie from Louisville, he was nearly killed in 1952 when a car in which he was riding went off the road at 107 m.p.h., putting him in the hospital for 96 days with a broken pelvis, a spine injury, a concussion and assorted internal injuries. That ruled out such sports as football and basketball. But he could still play golf, and after college he turned pro, with so-so results: in five years, he won three tournaments, created his biggest splash in 1962 when he wound up third behind Nicklaus...