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...excuse." Yale Coach Frank Keefe said afterwards, refusing to lament the absence of top sprinter Sharon Veitz and top distance swimmer Courtney Ellis. "We weren't missing anyone who isn't on the team." he added. President Bok's daughter Victoria also missed the meet because of strep throat...
Then a young black woman lunged forward and slit his throat with a pocketknife. The victim, Dan Murek, 48, miraculously survived. Rosemary Usher Jones, a local judge, tried to keep driving after a concrete chunk smashed her car window, but was soon hemmed in by the mob. Said Jones, 53: "They ripped my rings off my fingers." She was pulled to safety by two black girls and by Willie Watkins, owner of the 14th Street video arcade, where the violence had begun...
...next day he was pointing to his mouth, indicating that he wanted his teeth brushed. Physical therapists exercised Clark's arms and legs to prevent the muscles from atrophying. He was fed a gruel-like mixture through a tube inserted in his nostril and snaked down his throat and into his stomach. At week's end Clark was still slowly improving, although his doctors remained concerned about the possibility of brain damage...
...years old. He was riding in a car that skidded over a patch of ice and was thrown out the" passenger door and into the path of an oncoming truck. He woke up two days later in Pittsburgh's Allegheny General Hospital, a tube in his throat and a machine pumping air down his trachea. Rob had lost the use of his arms and legs, and his lungs were paralyzed as well. The doctors said that he would spend his life on his back, unable to perform the simplest tasks. But as his oldest brother, Gary, 27, recalls...
...plants. As a former Warsaw journalist wryly observes, "It is like a man with a knife asking for your watch in a dark alley. You can give it to him when he asks for it, or you can give it to him when he puts a knife to your throat. The authorities have lowered the knife, but they still want the watch...