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...Budget cuts brought to a near standstill King Saud's busy building of palaces and impressive government offices in Riyadh, and grumbling artisans and tradesmen quit town by the thousands. And Feisal's stern watchdog role took a heavy personal toll. Troubled for years by a stomach ailment, he went on a liquid diet and an 18-hour workday. Snapped one Saudi who recently visited Feisal: "His dingy office was piled right to the ceiling with files, files, files. He insisted on signing everything personally, even visas. Was this the way for a Bedouin prince to live...
Rusk's father was an ordained Presbyterian minister who had to give up the pulpit because a throat ailment kept him from preaching. At the time Dean was born, the fourth of five children, the elder Rusk was scratching a living as a rural schoolteacher and a small cotton farmer in Cherokee County. When Dean was four, his father got a job as a mail carrier in Atlanta, and the family moved to a frame house on Whitehall Street, just beyond the edge of the Negro district. The children wore underwear made at home out of flour sacks, often...
Sometimes the victim" may convince his doctor that his ailment is painfully real by having an attack in the doctor's office. Then an electrocardiogram taken during the course of his pain will register telltale changes in the electrical activity of the heart. The ailment is often progressive; eleven of Dr. Prinzmetal's patients eventually suffered major heart attacks. In all these cases, says Dr. Prinzmetal, the attacks struck the exact area of the heart in which the gripping pains of angina had earlier occurred...
...Sinclair-Gieben says his use of hypnosis to cure severe asthma does not necessarily show the ailment to be psychological in origin. Many asthma victims act sicker than they really are, but the Scottish patient was a "welladjusted individual" who displayed "no signs of psychiatric breakdown." Rather, says Sinclair-Gieben, it shows that hypnosis can exert a physical as well as psychological effect: "It is widely believed that conditions responding to hypnosis must of necessity be wholly psychologically determined. However, in other conditions-for example, organic pain and warts-it has been demonstrated that hypnosis can influence an accepted physical...
...four weeks-at an "astronomical" cost in lost shooting time to Producer Walter Wanger. With a low, persistent fever, Liz was confined to the London Clinic, where she was under the care of two of Queen Elizabeth II's personal physicians. A semi-medical diagnosis of her mysterious ailment came from London's Daily