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Earl Warren has gained weight since he left California. His hair is whiter, softer and fluffier, and a benign fullness has smoothed from his face all the small pinches of arrogance that led California political rivals to dub him the Earl of Warren. He loves the Supreme Court, presides over its sessions, both public and private, with easy skill. The eight Associate Justices love Warren, and under his influence work together as rarely before. But by last week, when Warren and his colleagues put their robes in mothballs after one of the busiest terms in history, the U.S. Supreme Court...
Genito-Urinary System. No disease of the urinary tract. The prostate showed minimal benign enlargement-normal...
...neglect can be. Examining 412 volunteers, mostly Manhattan executives and mostly aged 45 to 50, committee doctors discovered that only 68, a bare 15%, were free of serious ailments. Five executives had probable skin cancers relatively easy to cure, but 53 had "potentially precancerous" conditions. Thirty-five men had benign tumors requiring medical attention; 59 suffered from high blood pressure. Some 250 other potentially serious, hitherto unsuspected ailments were found among the 412 volunteers. The chief ones: heart disease, diabetes, ulcers, enlarged prostates and active TB (one case...
...Communist world, which had not been able to prevent this vast upheaval, at least had a duty to understand it. The triumph was not the victory of the "Uncle Mao" of Peking propaganda, the benign statesman who has charmed such outstanding humanists as Attlee, Nehru and U Nu. It was the triumph of terror...
...their proletarian foreheads, sat glumly with Nehru while they were made honorary Boy Scouts. They politely disregarded Neutralist Nehru's insistence that India is with neither bloc in the cold war; repeatedly the Russians described India as their "ally," and often they talked less like salesmen than like benign senior partners down on an inspection trip...