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...President joined the lobbying effort with his disarming soft sell. One of his targets was Nebraska's Democratic Senator Ed Zorinsky, who was recuperating from a double hernia operation. Carter phoned him last month to wish him a speedy recovery, then added as though it were an afterthought: "Keep your mind open on the energy bill." Zorinsky finally voted...
...Hubert returned to the University of Minnesota, where he majored in political science and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. When World War II broke out, he tried repeatedly to enlist, but was turned down because of a double hernia and lung calcification. (During the crucial West Virginia presidential primary in 1960, he was unjustly accused of being a draft dodger by John Kennedy's supporters.) He served as Minnesota state director of war-production training, and in 1943 ran for mayor of Minneapolis. He lost, largely because the liberal vote was split between the Democratic Party and the Farmer-Labor...
Heavy enough to induce hernia in the unconditioned. The Baseball Encyclopedia does not contain all there is to know about baseball. But it does hold more than enough to nourish the fan until opening day. It is the definitive reference book of baseball, the only tome that lists the year-by-year performance statistics for almost every man and child (Joe Nuxhall was only 16 when he pitched for Cincinnati) who ever played in the major leagues. The current (third) edition is now being sold out. There will not be another until 1980 -an aeon away to the true baseball...
...development-and possible pollution. But he is even more furious that they have not done a better job in D.C. His lungs were so accustomed to breathing the 49th state's pure air that the capital's fume-filled version induced a violent coughing spasm-and a hernia. "I'm just not used to breathing this stuff," said Young...
...Days of Our Lives for the past ten years, "and I ignored the page. Most of my life I am Bill Horton." Sometimes this goes beyond a joke. David Rounds, who played a suspected child molester, Phil Donnelley, on Love of Life for two years, suffered a hiatal hernia brought on by the strain of acting a man on the verge of a nervous breakdown...