Word: ailment
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...statement of the President's aides that the new backache condition has no connection with his old ailment is ridiculous! It has as much truth as saying a fresh crack in the wall has no connection with a slowly settling foundation under the building...
...frank, explicit and even intimate information about the health of its President. But John Kennedy's press aides have been reluctant to discuss the President's back injury, and his doctors have refused to say anything at all. If, as they insist, it is only "a minor ailment," then by their reticence they have needlessly caused confusion and concern...
...dirt, he felt a twinge in his back but said nothing about it. During the next few days the pain grew worse and when, just before his trip to Europe, he went to rest at Hyannisport, he sent for the White House physician, Dr. Janet Travell. She diagnosed the ailment as "a lumbosacral strain," treated the President with Novocain injections and hot packs. Out of public view, he used crutches to get about the big estate...
...villa of a friend, Charles B. Wrightsman. There, as he slept for up to twelve hours at a stretch and swam in a heated, salt water pool, his pain could be expected to ease-if, as his aides insisted, his new condition really had no connection with his old ailment...
Died. Ahmed Bey Zogu, 65, former King Zog I of Albania, who helped his Balkan land shake off Turkish despotism only to see it taken over, first by Italy, then by the Soviet Union; of stomach ulcers and a liver ailment; in Paris. "My life is an adventure story," said Zog, a mountain chieftain who rose from Premier to President to King, reigned for eleven years before Mussolini's troops chased him into lifelong exile in 1939. Zog, whose notorious chain-smoking (150 cigarettes a day) came as close to killing him as four assassination attempts, spent his last...