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The Pacers guard said the viral infection caused him to lose "part of (his) eyebrow" during a candid interview Monday.

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While the forces of liberalization continued to gather momentum in Czechoslovakia, the regime of Poland’s Wladyslaw Gomulka stiffened its resistance to reform. To filter out the ringleaders of the ...

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