Word: physician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...illnesses-and worries about how they would affect his fitness for office-hovered around Franklin Delano Roosevelt as early as 1936. By 1944, when he was 62 and running for an unprecedented fourth term as President, the rumors had become persistent. Vice Admiral Ross McIntire, Roosevelt's personal physician, insisted during the campaign that the President was in "excellent condition for a man of his age." But on April 12, 1945, less than three months after his fourth Inauguration, F.D.R. died...
...That leads Goldsmith to believe that the lesion was a sign of malignant melanoma-a form of skin cancer that can spread to other organs-and that it was surgically removed in 1943. He also suspects that when Lahey was called to the White House in March 1944, the physician found that the cancer had metastasized-perhaps to the gastrointestinal tract; several sources confirm that Roosevelt experienced abdominal pains. Cancer could also account for F.D.R.'s accompanying loss of appetite and weight. Further, it would explain why Roosevelt gave his son James funeral instructions shortly after his last Inaugural...
DIED. Frantisek Kriegel, 71, Czechoslovak physician and politician; of a heart attack; in Prague. After serving his profession and political conscience as a medical officer in the Spanish Civil War, with Mao Tse-tung's forces resisting Japanese aggression and, with the U.S. Army during World War II, Kriegel returned home and helped engineer the 1948 Communist coup d'etat. He then served as Deputy Minister of Health, medical adviser to Fidel Castro in Cuba, Central Committee member and, in 1968, chairman of the National Front. By then a liberal tied with the independent-minded regime of Alexander...
Maria may be ruthless, she may be supremely manipulative, yet she seemingly emerges through all with a rippling laugh and a twinkling gaiety. This, in contrast to other weaker characters who have not her resilience. Her physician, forced by post-war stresses into drug addiction, is one example of a character who falls by the wayside. Anothers is Willi, her brother-in-law who dissipates into a broken alcoholic. Unlike them, Maria manages to keep going. In a crazy, loyal way, she keeps visiting Herman in mail, pressing upon him money, speaking fondly of the day when he will...
...Shah's doctors include such experts as Physician in Chief Hibbard Williams, Parasitologist Benjamin Kean, who visited the ailing monarch in Mexico, and Cancer Therapist Morton Coleman. They concede that if they have erred, it is on the side of conservatism. Robert Armao, an adviser to the Shah, has acknowledged that the ex-monarch's spleen, which originally was said to be suddenly enlarged, had been in that condition for years. But the Shah's aides insist that the lymphoma is spreading, and so do his doctors. After studying a lymph node removed shortly after his arrival...