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...Lear, Martha's husband, a physician and a man of intelligence and sensitivity. The pain that woke him was the onset of his first heart attack. Before Dr. Lear's death four years later, he was to suffer every indignity open to victims of cardiac disease. Worse, as a doctor he understood exactly what was happening to him, so that he was not even granted the anesthesia of ignorance...
...aide-de-camp to Ike, more clerk than policy planner. But the next thing we knew, he had moved across the street and was in the White House basement, close to the President's communications center, a lope or two from John Kennedy's ear. When we woke up a few months after Nixon's Inaugural, the adviser, in the shape of Henry Kissinger, had claimed the best office in the West Wing at the President's own level. It was a measure of the enlarging role...
Norm Forbush woke the Harvard squad from its brief slumber when he racked up the winning goal at 7:33 in the second stanza. That capped off Forbush's hat trick. Also pitching in with two assists on the afternoon, the flashy sophomore ran his totals to 11 and 21. A total offensive output of 32 points gives Forbush third position in the team statistics, trailing Predun and Pedroni...
...Brokaw's pleasant rasp filled the room. A profound sense of food notstalgia beset him. He was a glass of apple juice. Jane Pauley began to cloy, and abruptly disappeared. Nothing to read. He would kill the nurse if she ever again opened the blinds and woke him and took his blood...
Whether hiding out in London or in Boca Raton, Fla., where he was reported to have dropped in on a weekend bankers' convention, Hunt was busy tidying up business deals. The silver baron woke up last Monday morning with IOUs scattered all over Wall Street. Chief among them: $33 million to Bache Halsey Stuart Shields; $10 million to Paine Webber and $4 million to St. Louis Broker A.G. Edwards. The biggest debt was owed to Engelhard Minerals and Chemical Co. Hunt had contracts to buy 19 million oz. of silver from the firm at $35 per oz. Fulfilling that...