Word: bladdered
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...gone a lot less smoothly than hoped. The picture, filmed in Leningrad and based on Maurice Maeterlinck's classic fairy tale, first faltered when the Russian cinematographer overexposed much of the early film and had to be replaced. Then one U.S. star (James Coco) dropped out for gall-bladder surgery and another (Elizabeth Taylor) fled to a London hospital suffering from amoebic dysentery. Last week everything seemed back in focus as members of the crews and cast gathered at the Leningrad Hotel for a buffet of caviar and vodka. The hostess? The completely recovered Elizabeth Taylor, who displayed...
...when he tried to take a sizable deduction for the donation of his vice-presidential papers. He was required to pay an additional $240,000 to the U.S. Government. In addition, Humphrey had to undergo a series of debilitating X-ray treatments in 1973 for a tumor on the bladder; apparently he has fully recovered...
...World Health Organization suggested that as many as 80% of all cancers were caused by agents in the environment. But no one is scoffing any more. The National Cancer Institute has published charts showing those areas of the country with the highest death rates from lung, liver and bladder cancer (see map); these areas also happen to have chemical plants-and chemical pollution. The obvious conclusion: Americans-and others elsewhere round the world-are increasingly filling their environment with chemicals that are not only harmful but may even be lethal...
There are no truly secure pensioners in the Mafia, but the retired Chicago don Sam Giancana, 66, was probably as much at ease one night last week as a man with his past could be. Just back from Houston and a gall-bladder operation, he had enjoyed a festive homecoming dinner in his fortress-like brick house in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park. His guests were the handful of people he could trust: one of his daughters and her husband; Charles ("Chuckie") English, his partner in myriad syndicate enterprises over the years; and his loyal courier-chauffeur, Dominick ("Butch...
...indomitable character and courage of Ivan Dejmal resulted in further repression. He suffers from consequences of hepatitis and has a gall-bladder condition; nevertheless, soon after completing his prison term he was drafted into the army. There he was treated not in the usual manner but as a politically unreliable element.' He was kept under close supervision, and his two years in the army amounted for all practical purposes to a continuation of his prison term...