Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McNamara, before leaving the Cabinet, recommended Vance as his successor, and the President probably agreed with the choice. But last summer Vance was forced to abandon his twelve-hour work days at the Pentagon because of an irksome back ailment. He returned to law practice in Manhattan, although repeated summonses to Washington for troubleshooting missions scarcely left him time for his legal career. The grueling Paris negotiations will tax Vance's health even more severely than his previous assignments. Despite the orthopedic brace he wears, his back is often so painful that he cannot bend to tie his shoelaces...
Died. The Rev. Aloysius S. Travers, 75, Philadelphia Roman Catholic priest, whose ever so brief career as major-league pitcher accounts for one of baseball's oldest and least wanted records-most runs given up in nine innings; of a kidney ailment; in Philadelphia. On May 18, 1912, when the Detroit Tigers angrily refused to play a game with the Athletics (after Ty Cobb was suspended for hitting a fan three days before), Travers, then a student at Philadelphia's St. Joseph's College, was one of a group of sandlotters recruited to face...
Businessmen are always talking about ways to end that chronic corporate ailment, the time-wasting conference. Now Danish Engineer Søren T. Lyngsø 46, head of a Copenhagen-based industrial instrument firm, has come forward with a conference-room conversation stopper: a sort of electronic tote board that reminds company staffers that talk is far from cheap...
Azaleas too pooped to pop? Fluffy ruffles lost their curl? Pollypoddies look like a tossed salad? Take heart. For every ailment, TV Horticulturist Thalassa Cruso has a remedy: "A highhanded plunge into a bathtub full of sudsy water will do wonders for your plant." If not, well, "then throw it out. You'll feel much happier replacing it with a fresher, sprightlier plant...
Died. Paul Cardinal Richaud, 80, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bordeaux since 1950; of a liver ailment; in Bordeaux. Convinced that an active church is a strong one, Richaud supported France's Catholic Action campaign, expanded parochial schools, and reorganized apostolic duties to give laymen more voice. He was the eighth cardinal to die in the past eight months...