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...Rome's Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic removed the 26 stitches they had inserted after a would-be assassin's bullet ripped through the Pope's abdomen on May 13. The Pontiff received visitors, made brief voyages to a nearby armchair and walked in the corridor outside the tenth-floor four-room suite, where he had been moved from the hospital's intensive-care unit...
Others were less fortunate. Jack Turinsky, 41, of Anchorage, apparently had rushed into the 24th-floor hall, was overcome by fumes, struggled back to his nearly smokeless room and died there. Bruce Glenn, 47, of Plymouth, Minn., smashed open his 16th-floor window, dangled briefly from a sheet, then fell to his death on a third-floor deck. Harry Gaines, 69, and his wife Lorraine, 67, of Los Angeles, heeded the usual survival advice. They fled into their tenth-floor bathroom, shut the door, crammed wet towels under it and stuffed other towels into the air vents...
...worry about it," said Karl as he checked the wire at the tenth-floor window, some 100 ft. above the sidewalk. "The wind is stronger on the street than up here...
Caustic Remarks. Yamani did not even bother to attend the final session in the conference hall. Instead, smiling and gracious, he invited TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn and a handful of other reporters to his tenth-floor suite. There, in equable tones, he delivered some surprisingly caustic remarks about his OPEC colleagues. How did he feel about breaking ranks? "Is it fair for all OPEC to get together to decide the price of Saudi crude? Is it fair for others to decide against our will?" What about OPEC arguments that a big oil hike is justified by inflation in the prices...
...number of unsuspecting people between 1953 and '63. In one case in 1953, an employee of the Army developed such serious side effects that he was sent to New York for psychiatric treatment. Several days later, he jumped to his death from the tenth-floor window of his hotel room. According to the report, Dulles reprimanded the two CIA employees involved, but the study continued for another ten years, even though several other test subjects became ill for hours or days...