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...Lenox Hill Hospital. fitness freaks should keep on running or jogging. The known benefits of such exercise, he says, far outweigh any known disadvantages. ∙ ∙ ∙ Jogger's kidney is not the only problem plaguing those involved in the great American running boom. An even more exotic ailment is "jogger's nipples," an irritation caused by the rubbing of a runner's shirt against skin. This condition, which afflicts not only women who jog braless but also men, can be prevented by covering the nipples with Band-Aids before a long run or by coating them...
...employer contributions, pension payments will also be cut off for most of the 86,000 retired union members if the strike continues beyond Jan. 1. Some retirees take grim satisfaction in the fact that they contracted black lung, a generally incurable disease caused by inhaling coal dust. That ailment guarantees them lifelong disability payments. "If we lost our pension, I could survive," says Ashland ("Hawk") Howard, 62, a retiree in David, Ky. "But if I did not collect for black lung, I'd really be in trouble." Howard gets a pension of $225 a month and a disability payment...
DIED. John L. McClellan, 81, Democratic Senator from Arkansas, whose investigations of labor unions and organized crime led to the imprisonment of Teamster Bosses Jimmy Hoffa and Dave Beck, and to Mobster Joseph Valachi's televised exposes of the Mafia; of a heart ailment; in Little Rock. Elected to the Senate in 1942, he soon became known as a cotton-country conservative-defending military expenditures, opposing the "socialistic" measures of F.D.R., advocating strict penalties for criminals. One of the first Senators to speak out against Joseph McCarthy, in 1955 he replaced the Wisconsin Senator as chairman of the Permanent...
...appears as a ministering angel in tweed jacket. Like so many other unbelievers, Vanauken and his wife Jean dipped into Lewis upon urgings of Christian friends, began devouring all the Lewis books they could find, and wound up, to their surprise, as converts. Then Jean died of a liver ailment, and Vanauken plunged into despair. It was an astringent letter from Lewis that enabled Vanauken to make some sense out of her death-and his life. Longtime Bachelor Lewis later suffered similar tragedy when he married a woman he knew was dying of cancer...
DIED. Roswell Garst, 79, Iowa farmer who played host to Nikita Khrushchev during the Soviet Premier's 1959 visit to the U.S.; of a heart ailment; in Carroll, Iowa. A pioneer in corn growing and cattle-feeding techniques, Garst arranged the first sale of U.S. corn seed to the Soviet Union-an act that helped ease East-West relations during the cold war. When Khrushchev visited Garst's Coon Rapids farm, he remarked, "I have seen today how the slaves of capitalism live, and they live pretty well." Describing himself as a sort of corn belt Brigitte Bardot...