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...hardy Crimson originally feared the loss of all-Ivy Steve Diamond, who was carried from the Dartmouth game on a stretcher. Diamond, however, suffered only minor injury to a neck muscle, and he will be ready to start against Penn. Otherwise, Harvard escaped with only the usual bumps and bruises from its title clash with Dartmouth...
...bullet from Oswald's rifle was found on a stretcher at the hospital where Kennedy and Connally were taken; the commission decided that it had fallen out of Connally's superficial thigh wound onto his stretcher. The bullet offered sufficient grounds to make the single-bullet theory suspect. Experts reported that a 6.5-mm. slug such as Oswald used would normally weigh 160 or 161 grains when fired. Doctors had found roughly three grains of metal in Connally's wrist and thigh. But the spent bullet (labeled Exhibit 399) weighed a hefty 158.6 grains when examined-more...
Suddenly he was gone again. Two Chinese diplomats had loaded him onto a hospital stretcher and carried him to the Chinese mission, where police were powerless to enter. The Dutch Foreign Ministry immediately protested the kidnaping, but got only silence from Charge d'Affaires Li En-chiu. After two days, the protests gave way to an ultimatum that the Chinese release their prisoner. Too late. "I am afraid I cannot help you," Li declared. "Unfortunately, Mr. Hsu died in my office...
Death comes routinely in the dingy warren of Chicago's Madison Street, "the street of forgotten men." The cops did not recognize Speck or even take the trouble to identify him correctly. Leaving the stretcher case in an emergency ward with a young nurse and a resident surgeon, the patrolmen departed and called the station to file a "sick-removal" report...
...compound was a cacophony of wailing wounded and milling troops, Boy Scouts, monks and nuns, ordinary women and children. As the correspondents entered, they saw a grisly series of tableaux. There lay a wounded woman with a tiny baby, just old enough to sit, screaming beside her. On another stretcher lay a young woman with two bullet holes in her back, freshly wounded and brought into Tinh Hoi for medical treatment. Torches illuminated a chamber where 26 corpses lay under Buddhist flags and swarms of flies. But there was no sign of a rebel spokesman or of the promised announcement...