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...years with Lyndon as Congressman, Senator, Senate majority leader, Vice President and President have been rugged, sometimes lonesome, always at a hell-bent pace. Lady Bird suffered through four miscarriages and faithfully nursed Lyndon back to sleek and robust health after a near-fatal heart attack in 1955. She has efficiently managed the family finances over the years, and proved that she had much of old Cap Taylor's business savvy when she bought and, with Lyndon's help, nurtured a floundering Austin radio station into a multimillion-dollar corporation. "She can read a balance sheet as well...
...steel frame, reading, writing and eating. Then he is rolled face up, in what his aide calls "the rotisserie," to sleep or watch TV. Still, Ted Kennedy, 32, is in good spirits, and with reason: his doctor says that he is making "an excellent recovery" from that near-fatal June 19 plane crash in western Massachusetts, and will not need an operation for the proper alignment of his three broken vertebrae. Nerve reflexes and muscle functions are back to normal, his fractured ribs are completely healed, and if all goes well Teddy should be out of bed by Christmas, back...
Worst of all, there was no way to halt the fatal process in the rare fulminating or explosive cases in which a man who seemed to have nothing more than a headache in midafternoon was dead by nightfall. Last week Private Michael Sandstrom, 19, from Sylmar, Calif., died within two hours of admission to the post hospital...
Small Compensations. After this ninth fatal case. Major General Edwin H. J. Cams tightened the quarantine still more. The men had been confined to the camp for a month. Now the new recruits are confined to their own company areas, even for Sunday services, in units of only 240 men. They are banned from post exchanges, movies, the beer hall. The usually rugged physical training has been softened to cut down fatigue. And a man who complains of the slightest sniffle or headache can be sure he will be rushed to the dispensary. There are none of the usual...
...WOMEN ARE FATAL by Claude Mauriac. 308 pages. Braz...