Word: bronchially
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After four weeks in bed with a severe bout of bronchial pneumonia, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was up and about again. The old man (he will be 80 next January) was still confined to his villa overlooking the Rhine, but he called in his Cabinet officers and kept up with the news from Geneva (see above). Doctors had advised a three-month vacation in Sicily, but der Alte would have none of it. "A leave of convalescence does not seem required," said a bulletin from Bonn...
After grittily ignoring his sneezes and sniffles for several days, West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 79, was bedded down in Bonn with bronchitis, a fever of 104°, a later complication of bronchial pneumonia. At week's end, he was "considerably improved," but his countrymen were chillingly reminded that der Alte cannot lead them forever...
...watching the haymaking down on the farm. From his home at Libertyville, Ill. ailing Adlai Stevenson last week scratched out a note to ailing Democratic Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson at the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md.: "Dear Lyndon: I am sitting on my little farm recuperating from bronchial pneumonia. They are making hay out here. But now the tractor has broken down; the hay truck is broken down; the hay wagon has collapsed, dumping 50 bales of hay in the middle of the driveway, and my farmer has lacerated his arm on a hay hook. Besides...
...Kansas City, Mo., declared himself "fit as a fiddle," rode for a time in the seven-hour-long Shriners' parade, then joined Governor William Stratton in the reviewing stand. Next day he paid a call on Adlai Stevenson, fresh from a hospital bed and a bout with bronchial pneumonia, agreed with him that "the best thing for the country is the Democratic Party...
...holiday weekend, Democratic Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson left the Mayflower hotel apartment of his friend and colleague, Georgia's Democratic Senator Walter George (who was recovering from bronchial trouble), and slipped behind the wheel of his blue Chrysler. He drove alone, through the stifling Washington heat, across the Potomac and 40 miles into Virginia to "Huntlands," the rolling estate of George Brown, Houston contractor and lavish contributor to Johnson's political campaigns. It was a trip from which Lyndon Johnson would return in a few hours-in an ambulance. He had suffered a coronary occlusion; doctors said...