Word: checkups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...selection process continues throughout training. Each trainee receives a thorough medical checkup, a psychiatric screening and a full background investigation. He is judged by each of his instructors and rated by his poers...
...midday," she said, "and also would be like the shadow of an eagle's wing." Besides, she added, "there is the Sikkim national guard to protect us"-fierce Sikkimese all, to be sure, but only 280 of them. The Queen flew to New York for a medical checkup, visited with friends who used to know her as Hope Cooke, a debutante majoring in Oriental studies at Sarah Lawrence. Then she hurried back to the side of her husband, King Palden Thondup Namgyal, in their high capital city of Gangtok...
Such complaints have echoed all the way to Washington, and at Ohio's request, representatives of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare gave the lake a complete medical checkup. They plumbed its depths, studied its surface, tested its water and measured its oxygen. With its findings in hand, the department held a two-week-long hearing for the five states that form Erie's watershed. The proceedings began with a grim conclusion: the lake has been brought to its deathbed by the citizens and industries that surround it; only a massive transfusion of money and effort...
Rigid Regimen. Cobb stuck to his stiff regimen, completed the program last spring. Now, at 232, he has gone to work in an Augusta shoe-repair shop. He returns to the hospital for a checkup every other week, and has maintained his new figure. Says he: "There's a heap more will power connected with it than anything else...
...Fair. "If you become a general you just plain have too much to worry about." Coming from Dwight D. Eisenhower, 74, that was certainly something to think about. Next day the old soldier's worry list lengthened unexpectedly. While he was in Washington for a physical checkup, thieves broke into his parked Lincoln Continental and found the secret button inside the glove compartment that unlocked the trunk. Though they left several suitcases of clothes, they heisted the car's spare tire, a $170 portable radio, a $10 box of candy, and the oxygen kit Ike uses when...