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...their children and wondered about their chances of survival. There were the usual neurotics. In Chicago, public officials received a spate of calls from women complaining that their hair curlers were radioactive, from men suspicious of the olives in their martinis (Chicago Psychiatrist Milton A. Dushkin named the ailment "nucleomitophobia"-fear of the atom). A motorcade of 30 food faddists set out from New York to find new, safe homes in the northern California town of Chico-blandly ignoring the fact that a Titan missile pad, which would presumably be a prime Soviet target, was less than seven miles from...
...White House pool (floating on his back one afternoon, he called out to a swimming companion: "I wonder if Maris or Mantle will beat Babe Ruth's record?"), and he was looking forward to playing some golf this fall. During the weeks when his back ailment had limited his physical activity, he had gained 10 Ibs., and his face appeared puffy; now he was down to 175 Ibs. and, although there were a few new lines, the puffiness was gone. His physical resiliency was remarkable: late one hectic day last week, a visitor reported that President Kennedy seemed weary...
Died. Domenico Cardinal Tardini, 73, jovial, sharp-witted intimate of the last three Popes and since 1958 Vatican secretary of state, a post combining the functions of premier and foreign minister; after recurrence of a heart ailment; in his Vatican apartment...
...alliances. Sick and saddened. Eden declined the earldom that goes, by long tradition, to departing Prime Ministers. Unlike Sir Winston Churchill, who refused a dukedom rather than forgo his lifelong passion for the House of Commons. Eden felt that he was too weakened by a major abdominal ailment even to make a nominal showing in the House of Lords...
Physician Travell easily diagnosed the ailment as a respiratory infection caused by what she called "the two-days' virus." Fearful that the President's back injury would weaken his resistance, she gave her patient an oral dose of tetracycline (aureomycin under another name), a whopping intramuscular shot of penicillin (1.2 million units, or at least three times what most doctors would have prescribed for an otherwise healthy adult). She also gave him an extra dose of the corticosteroids he regularly takes to compensate for his longstanding adrenal insufficiency. The fever rose to a high...