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...doubtless a reaction to many months of agony. All Presidents have had to endure pressures of one kind or another, but probably none has borne a burden like Watergate, with all the related charges of malfeasance and general immorality. White House aides freely admitted that their boss had been "grim" and "tense," that he had experienced "disappointment" and "frustration." But they denied that his mood was affecting his performance as President. In a statement remarkable because of the very need for it, Warren told reporters: "There is no question in the President's mind and in the minds...
...These grim thoughts filled Japanese minds and media with the approach of Sept. 1, the 50th anniversary of one of the most devastating earthquakes known to history. It leveled and burned Tokyo and neighboring cities with a loss of 143,000 lives...
...THIS TIME I was spending most of my time with the girl who lived beneath me. She was small and squat with frizzy hair and with a grim tightness at the corners of her mouth, like the look of middle age. She was Jewish, from New York City--compulsive about studies, socially insecure, socially ambitious. She wanted to marry a rich Eastern preppie, and she had come to Harvard looking for him. And when she didn't find him she wanted to transfer to Wellesley. I think, now, that part of her attraction to me grew out of her thinking...
Michael is a 22-year-old cartoonist who still lives with his parents in a grim flat on Manhattan's Lower East Side...
...your article "Revitalized Hearts" [July 30] the mortality statistics for patients with and without surgical treatment by coronary-bypass techniques were quoted incorrectly, giving a falsely grim outlook for both groups of patients. In the Cleveland Clinic study, 6.2% of 1,000 operated patients were dead after one year, compared with 11.9% of non-operated patients with severe coronary disease. The cumulative mortality of surgical patients after three years was 13.4% (of 269 patients who were followed over three years), compared with 24.9% of nonsurgical patients...