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President Eisenhower is receiving a new and still controversial treatment in the hope of lessening the likelihood of a second heart attack. According to Dr. Paul Dudley White, the Boston heart specialist, the President takes a pill containing a drug that "thins" the blood. The treatment is tricky because if it goes too far the blood might lose all clotting power, and a nick suffered while shaving could cause dangerous bleeding. The President's doctors make frequent tests, make sure that his blood still has a safe margin of clotting power. He was taking pills daily, now takes them...
...Named to the permanent rank of major general 14 Army officers, including famed Airborne Specialist James M. Gavin, who already has the temporary rank of lieutenant general...
...this was translated into more pertinent language by the famed heart specialist, Dr. Paul Dudley White: "We believe that medically the ... President should be able to carry on an active life satisfactorily for another five to ten years." Under persistent questioning White made it clear that by "an active life" he meant the presidency, with all its burdens...
...from Philadelphia, a puritan nonetheless. These two kill their principles to make a Roman honeymoon-not, however, with each other. The trouble with Harry is that he can only really enjoy himself if he knows he's being wicked. In Paris, he tries "laughing Simone from Marseille, a specialist in net underwear . . . and Mamai and Lisa and Danielle and Monique." His real fate, however, is a Roman prostitute called Dorotea-an "enigmatic goddess," whose "hair quivered slightly at the roots...
While preparing one of his typically dull sermons to be delivered to the student body of a nearby public school, Donat suffers a heart attack. Concealing his illness from his family, he visits a specialist and learns that he has no more than a year to live. At this point, the direction of Charles Frend comes amazingly alive. The doomed man goes to the cathedral to pray, and in a magic moment, life seems unbearably precious to him, heady in its color and configuration and line, jeweled with sunsets and enriched by the warmth of common humanity...