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...Iranian regime is an abiding hatred of the deposed Shah. The object of all that emotion was closely guarded in New York Hospital, where he was recuperating from his gall bladder surgery and undergoing a series of radiation treatments for lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph glands, from which he has been suffering for six years. For these treatments, he was taken at least three times through a heavily guarded underground passage to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Some doctors said privately that the Shah could safely be moved within a few days, and that the treatment he needs could...
...street outside. The Tehran government and anti-Shah activists in the U.S. charged that the Shah had used his illness as a political ploy to seek permanent sanctuary here. In the hospital, some staffers suggested sotto voce that the Shah's physicians were exaggerating his ailments: a gall bladder obstruction and histiocytic lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system for which the Shah has been under treatment for the past six years. Said one doubtful doctor: "I think that the prognosis may be overly pessimistic...
...spreading, and so do his doctors. After studying a lymph node removed shortly after his arrival at the hospital, they announced that the cancer centered in the Shah's neck had grown. They recommended that the monarch, who has not sufficiently recovered from the removal of his gall bladder to undergo chemotherapy, begin a four-week course of X-ray treatments. With this and other therapy, the Shah's prospects are encouraging; unless they are killed by the chemotherapy, which involves doses of potentially toxic drugs, many lymphoma victims survive up to ten years after diagnosis...
...days later, during a 21/2-hour operation, doctors removed the Shah's gall bladder after finding gallstones both there and in the bile duct; the blockage had caused the Shah to turn yellow from jaundice. The surgeons also took lymph nodes from his neck and a slice from his liver, and afterward made a more serious announcement: the Shah was suffering from histiocytic lymphoma, a form of cancer of the lymphatic system. The disease also involved his spleen, but, said the hospital's physician in chief, Dr. Hibbard Williams, ''some potential for cure exists...
...could hear the Horst Wessel Song sung by ex-rocket scientists of the Third Reich; Vice President Lyndon Johnson furiously cooling his heels outside the Glenn house because Annie Glenn would not let him in during her husband's countdown; Alan Shepard losing a struggle with his full bladder moments before liftoff; the overeager press terrifying Ham the chimp after his proficient flight; the astronauts surrounded by thousands of cheering Texans waving hunks of rare meat during an honorary barbecue in the Houston Coliseum...