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...they patiently waited for planes to evacuate them to the Laotian capital of Vientiane, 120 miles away. In his ramshackle, tin-roofed headquarters, guarded night and day by a patrolling platoon of tanks, Kong Le worked round the clock drawing up a battle plan, although weakened by a liver ailment and a serious sinus condition...
...visual study of stellar evolution, became convinced that there are 50 billion planets in the heavens. 2% of which could support life of some sort, and in 1960 led a major but unsuccessful attempt by radio astronomy to pick up intelligible signals from outer space; of a chronic liver ailment; in Berkeley, Calif...
...Lord Home, 59, British Foreign Secretary, downed by gastric flu, canceling all engagements prior to scheduled departure for Japan, at his London home; Indonesia's President Achmed Sukarno, 62, "maintaining routine vigilance'' after treatment of kidney ailment by specialists from Peking, in Djakarta; Burt Lancaster, 49, 1963 Oscar nominee, with infectious hepatitis, at home in Hollywood; Edward J. ("Knocko") McCormack, 69, freewheeling Boston Democratic leader and brother of House Speaker John W. McCormack, recuperating from cancer surgery, at Veterans' Hospital, Jamaica Plain, Mass...
...winter garden of his pink palace strode Katanga's Secessionist Moise Tshombe with an important announcement. "I am pleased to have ended my work and have done my duty," Tshombe told newsmen, and now he would be leaving for Northern Rhodesia to take care of a troublesome eye ailment. How long would he be gone? "The doctors will decide that," said Tshombe, but Elisabethville hummed with rumors that he was going for good. Moise did nothing to squelch the gossip, for 48 hours after he left his capital he was on a plane bound for Paris...
...ladies were examined from all angles-some acute. Gynecologist Edmund Overstreet speculated on the possibility that the menopause might be an ailment rather than a natural process (no non-human primate seems to experience it). Philosopher Peter Koestenbaum prescribed a stiff course of existentialism for such female problems as sexual incompatibility...