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Stuart T. Rossman, a third-year law student and spokesman for the Board of Student Advisers sponsoring the Ames competition, said yesterday the board and the Law School arranged to have Marshall as Burger's replacement yesterday afternoon shortly after learning of the chief justice's ailment...
...were defying all our usual concepts of pneumonia." So he promptly sent off blood samples to Atlanta's Center for Disease Control (CDC). A few weeks later the center's sleuths confirmed Beaty's worst fears. His "pneumonia" patients were, in fact, victims of the dread ailment known as Legionnaires' disease...
DIED. Hans Habe, 66, Hungarian-born author (A Thousand Shall Fall) and journalist who once enraged Adolf Hitler by disclosing that his real name was Schicklgruber; of a glandular ailment; in Locarno, Switzerland. Habe fought in both the French and U.S. armies in World War II and during the Allied occupation was named overseer of German newspaper publications. Called "a born novelist" by Thomas Mann, Habe wrote a score of widely translated books and, by his own count, some 10,000 articles...
DIED. William Herbert Sheldon, 78, psychologist who developed a theory of "somatotypes" correlating varieties of human physique with behavior; of a heart ailment; in Cambridge, Mass. After studying with Carl Gustav Jung in Switzerland, Sheldon returned to the U.S., where he interviewed several thousand subjects for the theory he popularized. People with a frail physique and introverted behavior he called ectomorphs; those muscular in build with a predisposition for physical activity were mesomorphs; and those fleshy in shape and outgoing in personality were endomorphs. Sheldon also did research in the relation between these body types and organic disease...
...cancer producing additives from food consumed by American human beings) in 1958, and now look what they've done. Why, you can't even nosh on a sodium nitrite dog any more without coming down with a dose of what Feedback happily diagnoses as "cancerphobia...another serious and widespread ailment in America...