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...carry that around with you all day? Well, that's just what you're doing if you're six pounds overweight." The best way to shed the suet? Out trots LaLanne's white German shepherd carrying the answer on a sign: IT'S GLAMOUR STRETCHER TIME! That cues a pitch for LaLanne's elastic exercise rope ($4), one of the 30 health and beauty products that he peddles. As testimony to the benefits of such items as Jack LaLanne's Toasted Soya Snack Crackers and Jack LaLanne's One-Plus-One Vitamin...
There was a lot of frustration. One pretty blonde girl, who identified herself as Gretchen Begen of New York City, ran over the line yelling, "Come on, come on," to the crowd. But nobody came. She flopped down in the grass and marshals carted her away on a stretcher. Another girl, with magnificent eyes ringed in green and black paint and wearing an Indiana sweatshirt, got carted away, too. She was mad at the people she left behind sitting in the grass. She sat up in her stretcher and screamed, "Cowaaards!" When we asked for her name she just glared...
...Quebrada del Yuro, Che was loaded onto a stretcher and carried five miles to the town of Higueras. Informed of his capture, army leaders in La Paz, the capital, pondered what to do with him. Since Bolivia has no death penalty, Che, at worst, would go off to prison-perhaps only after a long, noisy trial, a propaganda outcry from the whole Communist bloc and the threat that other guerrillas might streak into Bolivia and make a cause of him. The next day, orders came down to Higueras to execute Che. He was shot two hours later...
...memory. Through San Francisco's Golden Gate Park wended a legion of hippies, the lads bedizened with beads and scrapes, the lasses with furs and long velvet dresses. Then came the casket, a 15-ft. grey box labeled "Summer of Love," and behind it an equally outsized stretcher on which reclined a hirsute "corpse," clutching a zinnia to its breast-symbol of the death of the flower children. Television cameras ogled the scene as the mourners gathered around the casket and filled it with charms, peacock feathers, orange peels, bread (both edible and negotiable), flags, crucifixes, and a marijuana...
...presided over by Navy Lieut. Donald Shortridge, 26, of Indianapolis. Dug deep into the muck and reinforced by heavy wooden beams and a mountain of sandbags, his spartan shelter is strictly for keeping the wounded alive until they can be evacuated to hospitals in the rear. Shortridge uses a stretcher balanced between two sawhorses as his emergency operating table; hissing Coleman lanterns furnish the light, and an armored amtrack stands outside to accommodate extra patients. Most of the wounded suffer from arm and leg injuries. "That 20-lb. flak vest is worth five times its weight in gold," says Shortridge...