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...late Senator Joe McCarthy, was almost killed on the floor of the House in March 1954 when three armed Puerto Rican nationalists in the gallery began spraying the House floor with bullets. The most seriously wounded of five Congressmen was Bentley: a bullet pierced his liver and stomach and a lung. Minnesota's Congressman Walter Judd, M.D. (who fortnight ago keynoted the 1960 Republican Convention), administered first aid to Bentley, probably saved his life. Eight weeks after the shooting, Bentley returned to a standing ovation from his House colleagues...
...nights later, grim and pale, Farrell was back to fight for a place on the 800-meter relay team. All he had to do was finish sixth or better in the eight-man field, but no one knew how his stomach would take the long grind. "The more I swim, the more it hurts," he admitted. Coming off the final turn, Farrell poured on his famed finishing sprint, hurt stomach or no, and touched out in fourth place. "I'm very grateful," Farrell said later. "This is the way I wanted to make the team...
...only years in Singapore could teach: an Australian sergeant combed the streets with a ventriloquist whose many voices caused the Japanese to pop their heads out from their trees while the sergeant picked them off. But most of the troops were too poorly trained, too disorganized to have the stomach to fight to save Singapore...
...shall be 40 in September. I have nothing, really nothing. I'm not married. I have no children. I've been going to a psychiatrist for three years. All I really care about is the theater, but now. for the first time, I know in my stomach that my work is good...
...answer to all de stomach ills...