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Though he had a virus ailment, a touch of pneumonia and a 100.2° temperature, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield left his bed at Bethesda Naval Hospital, bundled up against a chill wind, and was chauffeured to the Capitol. Mansfield had made sure in advance that other Administration stalwarts would also be on hand. As for the G.O.P., Minority Leader Everett Dirksen warned potential no-shows: "By God, you're going to be here." To a man, they were. Thus, after a Dirksen-led filibuster had tied up the Senate for a total of 13 days in an attempt...
...Open-only to notice, a few months later, that his fingers were cold and the skin on his hands was peeling. In a game that depends almost entirely on feel, he could not even grip a club without his hands going numb. Doctors told him he had a circulatory ailment, advised him to give up golf. Venturi stubbornly refused to quit, and went out to defend his championship in the 1965 Open. He shot a dreadful 81-79, failed even to survive the second round cut. "How can I play?" he groaned. "How can I ever play tournament golf again...
...Senator George Smathers, 52, secretary of the Senate Democratic Conference and the second-ranking Democratic member of the Finance Committee, announced that he will retire after his third term expires in January 1969, because of ill health. Smathers has been suffering from a stomach ulcer and a kidney ailment, but declines to specify the illness that is ending his congressional career. Before entering Georgetown University Hospital last week for tests, he described his condition as "serious, complex but not incurable...
...malaria that has reached almost epidemic proportions in Viet Nam. Later, they suspected she might have cancer. But an exploratory operation uncovered nothing, and meanwhile her condition continued to worsen. She developed uremic poisoning and began to hemorrhage internally. Finally, the doctors surmised that she had a rare tropical ailment called leishmaniasis, in which protozoa from the bite of a sandfly enter the bloodstream and attack the liver and spleen. As a rule, few people die of the disease if they are properly treated, but in Marguerite Higgins' case, the doctors were unable to arrest it. Last week...
...snapped by Southern California 74-72. U.S.C.'s opponent in the final of the Los Angeles Classic was cross-town rival U.C.L.A., which started the season No. 1 and fell all the way out of the Top Ten when Playmaker Freddie Goss was laid up with a mysterious ailment and the Bruins lost three out of four. Last week Goss was back in action, and Coach Johnny Wooden's Bruins were looking more and more like the team that won the N.C.A.A. championship two years running. "We're coming along fast," allowed Wooden, after U.C.L.A. polished...