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...hearing aid for a deaf left ear, a painful lump on his right kneecap diagnosed as Osgood-Schlatter's disease, a hiatal hernia and a limp-the result of a World War II shrapnel wound. He also has a history of alcoholism, and after his first marriage failed, he suffered a nervous breakdown...
...Lisbon speculated that the left may have deliberately stirred up violence in hopes of provoking a premature right-wing effort to seize power so that it could be easily crushed. In an ironic twist, former President António de Spínola, the alleged leader of the plot, wound up in exile in Brazil along with former Dictator Marcello Caetano, whose regime he helped topple last year. In an interview in São Paulo with TIME'S Barry Hillenbrand, Spínola said that he stood on a fellow officer's statement that the coup...
...group on a record album released in 1969. Tommy was closer to oratorio than opera, but the most serious thing about the entire piece was the lofty label that was pinned on it. Tommy was just strong rock 'n' roll, sometimes raunchy, sometimes highfalutin. The Who even wound up performing it at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, an appearance that was less an honor than a shrewd piece of promotion. Tommy has not only endured since then; it has flourished...
They peaked about 11 p.m. News came that Kilson had, well, been delayed...and the drunken cycles wound down. Everybody left and the Science Center hall was quiet, swamped in beer and strewn with bottles and spotted with tiny black chars. I two days later was Monday...
...every man for himself. The Arabs had put dynamite next to the wall, and I knew they meant to explode it. So I ran into a bathroom and crouched between two walls. When the dynamite went off, plaster fell over me, but ex cept for a shrapnel wound in my shoulder, I was okay...