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...Speaker Tip O'Neill conceded last week that the Democrats are launching their counterbudget "at an inopportune time," when sympathy is rising for a President recuperating from an assassination attempt. In a visit to Reagan's hospital bed, O'Neill reported that his mail, which had swung against the White House budget before the assassination attempt, had turned pro again and added, "Mr. President, you're making my life miserable." Replied Reagan, in the same joshing spirit: "That's the best news I've heard today...
...soon as Ronald Reagan was carried into Room 5A of George Washington University Hospital's emergency unit, a hastily assembled team of more than a dozen doctors plus paramedics, nurses and aides swung into action. Seemingly in disorganized fashion, but actually with speed and precision, they moved toward one goal: stabilizing the patient as quickly as possible. Oxygen was administered to aid the President in breathing, and fluids were given intravenously to raise his blood pressure. A reading indicated that the systolic pressure (when the heart contracts) had dropped below 100, alarmingly low. Simultaneously, his clothing was cut away...
...feet to capture a series of haunting images that by day's end were burned into the national memory: the President waving, then being jackknifed into his limousine by a Secret Service agent; Press Secretary James Brady and a Secret Service agent falling to the pavement wounded. Brown swung his camera around in the direction of the assailant, by then smothered under a swarm of armed Secret Service men and Washington, B.C., police. "Then I saw them kick a gun away, and I followed it to where it stopped near Brady's head," says Brown. "I stayed with...
...average of 3.75. Frankie Frisch, who was the Cardinals' second baseman and manager in 1934, once said that Daffy threw the "damndest, heaviest sinker you ever saw. When a batter hit one of those pitches, his hands stung as painfully in July as if he'd swung an icicle in December...
Death in Detroit. Pretty, bright-eyed Keisha Jackson, who was 13 and black, swung her roller skates and laughed with a group of friends after a lively evening at Detroit's Wheels Disco Roller Center. A 16-year-old black boy watched the group go by and squeezed the trigger of his stolen .32-cal. handgun. Keisha fell to the sidewalk, a bullet in her brain, and died a few days later. The boy has not explained to the police why he shot at the happy party...