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British Champion Stirling Moss, driving a Mercedes-Benz, stopped to tinker with his fuel pump, was promptly grabbed by a couple of athletic male nurses, shoved onto a stretcher and carted off to an ambulance. "I'm O.K.," Moss protested. "Be quiet, boy," said his Spanish-speaking nurses, who could not understand him. Moss got a quick cooling-off with ice packs before he finally escaped back...
...helmet, and I tried to stand up, but I was too wobbly. I lifted my eyelids with my fingers, but I couldn't see a thing, just that salmon-colored blur. I shook my head, but that didn't help. They put me on a stretcher, and I saw specks of blue in the midst of the salmon blur. In about eight minutes the blue specks became blue sky and clouds. Then I knew that the retinas had not detached...
With his glamorous wife Jacqueline at his side, Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy, 36, borne on a stretcher, was wheeled from a Manhattan hospital, then flown to Palm Beach...
...stretcher-bearer, sweating and tired after more than two hours of unloading, checking and reloading, complained: "What a hell of a job-why don't they just let 'em be?" A colonel gently explained: "It's for the folks back home. Even if there's nothing left but a few bones, they have the right to have them...
...deadline for exchanging prisoners was past, they handed over their highest-ranking captive: Brigadier General Christian de Castries, 52, the dauntless but defeated commander of Dienbienphu, who had spent four months in Red hands. He seemed years older, much thinner, and his hair was greyer. He refused a stretcher. He admitted that he was not in good shape, but said he was a hard man, that he would be all right after a glass of wine and a few days of rest...