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Private Gain. Singer has benefited from a series of setbacks suffered by Hizzoner since his election. A stroke in 1974 required an operation and three months of convalescence. Seven top members of his machine, including his right-hand man Alderman Thomas Keane, have been convicted for using their offices for private gain. Questions of propriety have been raised over the mayor's secret ownership with his wife of a real estate company with assets of about $200,000. He has been criticized for influencing the placement of millions of dollars' worth of city insurance with a firm that...
...Heineman, president of Northwest Industries and a friend of Daley's, has gone so far as to declare his support for Singer in a TV ad. Heineman explains: "To put it purely in business terms, I would never put a man who is 72 and has had a stroke in charge of one of our major corporations...
Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor and ambassador to Japan from 1961 to 1966, suffered a stroke Thursday afternoon at his home and is listed in "fair and stable" condition at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston...
Robert D. Reischauer '63, his son, said yesterday it is ton early to tell" if the stroke will affect any of his father's longer range plans...
Doctors believe that the stroke did not affect Douglas' intellect. His vision, temporarily impaired, is now back to normal, and he reads mail his wife Cathleen, 31, brings daily. His speech is improving markedly, though there are still traces of slurring. A slight drooping of the left side of his face persists. His left arm has responded somewhat to whirlpool baths and manipulation therapy, but it is still not usable (Douglas is right-handed). Worse, his left leg shows few signs of response. TIME has learned that his physicians now think it possible that the great outdoorsman will never...