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...wealthy districts. Apparent reason: the well-off elderly were not only healthier to begin with, but better supplied with fans, air conditioners and other aids to keep body temperatures below the 105° F (40.6° C) or so that helps trigger heat stroke...
DIED. James S. McDonnell, 81, founder and chairman of McDonnell Aircraft, which, through a 1967 merger, became McDonnell Douglas, one of the nation's largest defense contractors; following a stroke; in St. Louis. "Old Mac," who called himself a "practicing Scotsman," guided his firm in the 1950s and '60s to manufacture the Mercury and Gemini Space Capsules and F-4 Phantom II fighters used in Viet Nam. In the late 1970s, however, design flaws in the Douglas group's DC-10 commercial jets were blamed for several crashes, precipitating lawsuits and costly losses of civilian and military...
Disorders and Stroke...
...Bradley, also 39, the convention was especially traumatic and exhausting. His mother suffered a stroke the week before, and for a time he wondered whether he should bow out. "On Sunday night I couldn't even write a 30-second spot," he said. "But I thought to myself, if she sees me up there, she is going to get a charge out of it." CBS provided a limousine so he could visit his mother each day in Philadelphia, 90 miles away...
Vice President Johnson's ties to the Kennedy White House were strained. Bobby and others on J.F.K.'s staff dismissed him as "Uncle Corn Pone." There is much evidence, however, that John Kennedy sincerely liked Lyndon and went out of his way to stroke his ego. There were, for example, those raucous fact-finding trips through Asia and India during which Johnson spurned State Department advice to avoid shaking hands with the unwashed masses. Nothing released his old progressive juices better than a crowd of impoverished farmers waiting for the word...