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With a happy smile for photographers and a friendly dig for Dick, a thin but chipper Pat Nixon checked out of a Long Beach, Calif., hospital last week, 16 days after suffering a partly paralyzing stroke at nearby San Clemente. Doctors worried about lingering high blood pressure, but said the outlook for a "full or nearly full recovery" was excellent. Flanked by Daughters Tricia Cox and Julie Eisenhower, the former First Lady, 64, waved from her wheelchair and told well-wishers: "I feel fine, but I'm a little frightened about the driver." No need. With a steady hand...
After intensive examinations, doctors concluded that Pat had suffered a stroke in the right parietal area of the brain. She was considered in serious but not critical condition. Although she was placed in an intensive care unit, she remained conscious and coherent. Nevertheless, she was expected to be hospitalized for at least ten days. Nixon's personal physician, Dr. John Lundgren, and Neurologist Jack M. Mosier said the stroke had been caused by a small hemorrhage or clot in the right cerebral cortex. Unless the effects of the stroke spread, Pat Nixon was expected to recover, but it remained...
...Beach and Los Angeles; infrequent dinners with Dick at local restaurants; one public appearance, alone, at ceremonies naming a public grade school after her; a visit to China with her husband; a theater outing in New York with Daughter Tricia Cox (who, on learning of her mother's stroke, headed at once for California...
...advertisement in the Boston Gazette made it sound like a holiday: "All those jolly fellows who love their country and want to make their fortune at one stroke, to repair immediately to the Rendezvous at the head of Hancock's Wharf, where they will be received with a hearty welcome by a number of brave fellows there assembled and treated with that excellent liquor called grog ..." When a band of fortune hunters gathers in response to such a lure, these "brave fellows" are soon recruited into the growing forces of legalized buccaneers whom General Washington calls "our rascally privateersmen...
Died. Harald T. Friis, 83, radio-communications pioneer whose work helped make possible, among other things, modern radio reception and microwave transmission; of a stroke; in Palo Alto, Calif. Born in Denmark, Friis became a leading research scientist with the Bell System, eventually holding 25 patents, including one for the famous horn-reflector antenna of microwave systems first used in satellite communication. Highly regarded as a teacher of other scientists, Friis also supervised the work of the late Karl Jansky, founder of radio astronomy...