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After months of hopeful speculation, the Nationalist Chinese Ministry of Information on Formosa sadly reported that rumors of the death of Red China's Premier Mao Tse-tung have been greatly exaggerated: Mao is not only still alive, but recovering from a year's siege with asthma and other chest complications...
...shortly after he was born. She took the baby and her mother to California-first to San Francisco, and then, as her money dwindled, to a shabby apartment in Los Angeles. They had a bitter struggle. Jack nearly died of pneumonia when he was four. Afterward he suffered with asthma so racking that Maggie or Gram often had to carry him pickaback upstairs...
Forceful, independent K. C. Wu, once famed as the dynamic mayor of Shanghai, resigned as governor of Formosa last April and left for the U.S. for his health (asthma). After he left, his enemies in Formosa kicked up a swirl of charges that he had absconded with millions and was living in a $189-a-day hotel suite in New York. K. C. Wu kept silent, set up housekeeping in Evanston, Ill., and began lecturing to make his living. His wife did the cooking and he did the dishes. From time to time, he wrote Chiang, refuting the charges...
...milk, wax soap, Duco auto enamel and hot beeswax. His wax technique-a revival of the ancient encaustic method in which colors are mixed with hot wax and afterwards cooked into the canvas-brought him critical acclaim. But in 1949, things began to go wrong. Zerbe started suffering from asthma, found that he was allergic to beeswax...
...child may get stomach cramps before a school examination. A housewife develops rheumatoid arthritis worrying over her relationship with her husband. A soldier cracks under the strain of waiting for battle. All these are stress diseases. So, in various cases, are asthma, duodenal ulcers, hypertension, some heart diseases and ulcerative colitis. "Some," says Surgeon Ogilvie, "would add diabetes in younger many men and women have been freed from the fetters of anxiety and self-absorption...