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...best show in town-also rated PG was, as usual, Meany himself, 82, who has been the pre-eminent U.S. labor figure since the 1960s. Bothered by an old hip ailment, he needs a cane to get around. His eyesight is so poor that when he plays golf, he has to have his aides tell him how far it is to the green. But during "the Meany show," the midday press conference that follows each closed-door, morning meeting, the AFL-CIO chiefs humor is as quick and salty as ever...
Bannish described the ailment to reporters today, saying "It used to come to me like clockwork every Sunday morning. I'd wake up really dizzy with my head pounding like a construction company building a new wing on Lamont...
...days of yore, the '60s, and his mother (Anne Jackson) was the original flower child. But, as Stony now discovers, his mother was really his father as well, having undergone a sex change at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Poor Stony-suffering from a new version of that old dramatic ailment, the identity crisis-dreams of falling in love with a sensuous plant, which at least has roots. Wintermouth finds and loses the cure for cancer. He is instantaneously transformed from the world's hero into its fool for that carelessness, and he ends up with Hitler's love...
...said that during one of his UHS visits he was questioned by Charles J. Krauss, sanitary inspector for UHS, about the possibility that his ailment was the result of food eaten at the Holmes Dining Hall on Saturday...
...strange ailment that triggered the new concern is a disorder of the nervous system called GuÍllaÍn-Barré syndrome. Named for the French doctors who described it in 1916. it begins with paralysis in the legs and may gradually spread upward to the hands and arms and the rest of the body. Most people eventually recover (the death rate is 5%), but if the breathing muscles are seriously impaired, a respirator may be needed during the critical period. No one knows what causes the paralyzing nerve inflammation, though the syndrome seems to strike more often after...