Word: checkups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heart patient. He stopped often to shake hands with passers-by and to chuck babies under the chin. At home between constitutionals, he ate so heartily that he put on two pounds last week. It was true that every other day he dropped into the hospital for a checkup, and he was taking about 30 pills a day. But Cape Town Dentist Philip Blaiberg, 58, was in far better shape than he had been before he received his heart transplant. The daily bulletins on his condition monotonously reported "excellent progress...
Louis Heren, chief Washington correspondent for the Times of London, brings this geriatrics report up to date in a brisk spot checkup on the U.S. political system, loosely paralleling the classic study performed in The American Commonwealth (1888) by another sympathetic Englishman, Lord Bryce. Measured by the age of its continuous governing institutions, Heren judges the U.S. to be the second oldest country in the world; only Britain is its senior. Despite its perpetual self-image of newness, the country is really "a mature, almost ancient land...
Dilemma for Castro. President Barrientos told newsmen in Zurich, where he was having a medical checkup, that he would trade Debray for Huber Matos, 48, a onetime Castro aide who was convicted of "high treason" in 1959 and sentenced to 20 years in prison. "I admire Matos profoundly," Barrientos said. "He has the same ideas I have. He fought for social reforms, but he refused to be an agent for Moscow...
Bodies on Poles. Republican President Abdul Rahman Iryani's only answer was to go off to Cairo for what Nasser's official press agency described as "a medical checkup." Foreign Minister Hassan Macky also left Yemen, showing up nearly a week early for an Arab foreign ministers' meeting in Cairo called to decide on an Arab summit. That left the government in charge of Field Marshal Hassan al-Amri, the army commander. Al-Amri declared a 6 p.m. curfew, ordered civilians to form militia units "to defend the republic." In Liberation Square, a howling mob watched...
...Western politician for enough support to get the bill passed on a second try. The shudder from such a convulsive exercise of Yugoslavia's new freedoms brought Marshal Tito himself to Slovenia for a long business lunch with Smole under the ironic guise of a "routine medical checkup." Rediscovering politics Western-style, the Slovenes were by and large delighted with themselves. "Isn't it a mess?" asked one official with a smile. "Isn't it a refreshing mess...