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...were Endocrinologist George Cahill of Harvard Medical School, who testified that Sunny's comas had to have been caused by insulin injections, and Maria Schrallhammer, Sunny's personal maid of 23 years. She told the court that for nine hours Von Bülow had refused to summon medical help for his unconscious wife. Schrallhammer also discovered in Von Bülow's closet a small black bag containing vials of drugs and hypodermic needles, one of which was later found to have traces of insulin. Said Defense Attorney Herald Price Fahringer: "Her testimony...
...rates still hover at investment-ravaging levels. And the worst problem of all at the moment, unemployment (see cover story), prompted only a few passing words of concern. Summarized Reagan: "In the near future, the state of the union and the economy will be better, much better, if we summon the strength to continue on the course that we've charted...
...morning after the Inauguration, Roosevelt ate an early Sunday breakfast, then had himself wheeled into the Oval Office to get his New Deal under way. In the vacated presidential desk he could find neither a pencil nor a pad of paper. He could find no buzzer with which to summon an aide. He paused for an echoing moment in this vacuum of power, then threw back his head and shouted until a secretary came running...
Mahler: Symphony No. 9 (Deutsche Grammophon, 2 LPs). Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic summon the otherworldliness of Mahler's last completed symphony...
...favor American action to end its own repression. Indeed, it seems to us that cleaning our own hands will make us much more effective at pressuring others. If our allies and the non-aligned nations see us practicing in El Salvador what we preach in Poland, then they may summon the courage to back our efforts elsewhere. At the very least, we would rob the Soviets of their most powerful--and most correct--propaganda weapon: that we are often as bad as they...