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...astonishment of the entire nation. Is the South a war camp of church bombings and station-wagon burnings, or is it a region earnestly attempting peaceful compliance with a hated civil rights law? Does it ask for "understanding" merely to delay the inevitable? Or is there a wound so deep that it will not heal for generations to come? Is poverty too prevalent? Is sex too obsessive...
...thought that in their small hospital they were likely to have many more suitable recipients than donors. But they were wrong. Three men were admitted to the medical center in Jackson with incurable brain injuries-one from a fall, one from a tumor, and one from a suicidal gunshot wound. Each of the doomed men was kept alive for a while by artificial breathing apparatus, and any one of them might have been a suitable donor if there had been an equally suitable recipient handy. But even if they had had a dying heart patient on whom...
...socking bullets into the helicopter. A steel-jacketed slug snapped through the Plexiglas, and Kelly slumped over the controls. The Huey crashed and rolled over, injuring the rest of the crewmen. Somehow they managed to pull the major from the wreckage, and went to work on Kelly's wound. It was in vain, for he was shot through the heart-the 149th American to die in action...
...season by taking four straight from the Yanks and the Chicago White Sox. Two weeks ago, they swept three in a row from New York. Now it is July 4-and they are coasting along in first place, four games ahead of the pack. For a team that wound up seventh in 1962 and fourth last year, the Orioles seem too good to be true. Third Baseman Brooks Robinson (a .251-hitter in 1963), is batting a lusty .314. Outfielder Boog Powell has 20 homers. Rookie Pitcher Wally Bunker, 19, won his first six straight. And Shortstop Luis Aparicio...
...MORTAL WOUND by Raffaele La Capria. 191 pages. Farrar, Straus...