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Brady lay on the sidewalk, blood seeping from a wound in his head and trickling into an iron grating. He tried to rise. Rick Ahearn, a White House advanceman, cradled Brady's face and shouted: "A handkerchief, a handkerchief!" Dropped in the turmoil, a police pistol lay incongruously beside Brady's head. McCarthy had been trained to try to block any shots at the President with his own body; when the firing began, he turned away from the limousine toward the assailant. Hit in the abdomen by a bullet that might well have struck the President, McCarthy whirled away from...
After nearly a century of New England wind and rain, the colonel's face is now as black as those of his soldiers. But beneath his cap a streak of bright green flows, like blood from a saber wound, down the temple, blinding the right eye, grazing the mustache. His naked sword is fastened to his knee, but someone has broken it off just below the bolt...
...them with carrying firearms illegally. The patrol has since agreed to stick to bats. Atlanta officials maintain that the vigilantes do not have the support of most of their neighbors. Says Mayor Maynard Jackson: "These things are upsetting people who are already distraught. This is rubbing salt into the wound...
Even after the nation learned that is president had been shot, official spokesmen insisted that the wound was minor and that the president had never been in any danger. But late this week Dr. Dennis S. O'Leary, the hospital spokesman, told reporters that Reagan had lost about two units of blood and was complaining of "air hunger" when he reached the hospital. And yesterday Reagan's chest surgeon conceded that the president's temperature is a "limited setback" that might lead to pneumonia...
...vivid. He describes the arms race as "a combination of poker and chess. The movement of fire-breathing, life-annihilating pawns on a global board of a spinning planet." At another point he says, "the news accounts of congressional travel plans rubbed like shards of glass in an oozing wound." His fear of losing his campaign is "a gray moth of doubt that had ballooned into a terrifying pterodactyl whose razored jaws were shredding what remained of my confidence...