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Fahey, Sitttng next to the pulpit,
rose and started to move backwards
so 1 could walk in front of him to
my. seat in the middle. So without
thinking I started to walk around
behind him. 1 guess it seemed at the
instant impolite to walk
in
front of
him. At any rate, with my one blind
eye and very poor eyesight in the
other, 1 did not notice lhat we were
on a platform lhat did nol extend all
the way .back to the rear wall.
Actually it extended only a
couple of steps backward from the
pulpit. lt was a rather
BIG
two steps
up lo the platform or three shorter
sieps. Anyway, without seei ng the
back end of the platform, 1 stepped
into thin
AlR -
and fell down lO the
floor - sorne sixteen to eigh teen
inches.
lt all happened so suddenly
J
hardly realized what had happened,
but both Mr. Rader and Mr. Fahey
and other men were there instantly
to pick me up. 1 had fallen fui!
weight on my left ankle while
twisted inward.
It was abad sprain.
Next mqrning the doctor carne.
J
was taken in an ambulance toa hos–
pital which seemed to be about
three cities away. 1 was taken on a
st retcher. The ambulance was cov–
ERED
so we could see only out
through one or two very small open–
ings - with a big red cross on eacb
side and the rear of the outside of
the ambulance. Both Stan and Bob
went along. sitt ing on a side seat,
while my stretcher filled the remain–
der of the interior.
The attendants lifted me on the
stretcber stairs up to lhe second
story of the building and into a
ROYAL AUDIENCE-
Mr. Armstrong presents
a
gift of Steuben crystal to King Sobhuza 11 of Swaziland, while Mr.
S
tan/ey
Rader, who accompanies Mr. Armstrong on his travels, looks on. The king, 76, has ruled the 6, 700-square-mi/e kingdom
for 55 years. He is attired in his nation 's traditional tribal costume.
22
The
PLAIN TRUTH February 1977