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...illnesses of many political leaders, Dr. Silverman believes, fit his theories: Lyndon Johnson's last heart attack, Robert Taft's terminal cancer, Joseph McCarthy's fatal liver ailment and Richard Nixon's phlebitis, all seem to him to have been triggered by the intense emotional stress of a traumatic event, though not enough is known about the "target organs" involved...
...Richard Nixon's target areas are the legs (phlebitis in 1964 and 1974, two knee injuries in 1960, foot injury in 1952) and the respiratory system (pneumonia in 1973 and as a child in 1917), with the ominous possibility that the two areas could be connected by a fatal blood clot traveling from leg to lung...
This affront to the sense of justice-and that is essentially what it is-is not, to be sure, fatal to our criminal-justice system. But this action certainly does add to the all too popular view that our criminal law is a mass of hypocrisies. It is interesting to note that California's Governor Ronald Reagan, who applauded the refusal to allow prosecution of Richard Nixon on the ground that "he has suffered as much as any man should," had two days earlier announced his intention to veto a bill lowering the possible penalty for possession of small...
...Israeli Cabinet in a governmental shake-up last May. But he will return to Israel to take his seat in the Knesset in December, with no fears that his academic interlude might weaken his appeal. "In politics," he says, "a discreet measure of literacy is no longer a fatal handicap...
Most people associate viral hepatitis, a debilitating and potentially fatal liver disease, with polluted water, contaminated shellfish or unsterilized hypodermic needles. But there is another way that the water-borne hepatitis viruses can find their way into humans: by mosquito. Researchers from the New Jersey Medical School and the Veterans Administration Hospital in East Orange, N.J., report in the A.M.A. Journal that they became suspicious after studying an epidemic of hepatitis that hit New Jersey in 1955. None of the victims was a drug addict, and none had eaten shellfish or come into contact with known hepatitis carriers...