THURMOND HOSPITALIZED

Strom Thurmond, the nation's oldest Senator at 91, was checked into a hospital last night and remained there today after complaining of lightheadedness Monday. But doctors at Walter Reed Army Hospital may release the South Carolina Republican tonight. No cause of the malaise was named, but the piss-and-vinegar solon had been traveling for several days, then skipped lunch.

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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