Word: checkups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guests were present for the King's 42nd birthday party. But among the 500 male guests were ambassadors, generals and ministers. There were also the royal shirtmaker, shoemaker and tailor (all Italians), and four physicians (three French and one Austrian), who were in Morocco to give Hassan a checkup...
...save up to $500 in fees for laboratory tests, as an ideal way of examining large numbers of people and providing the early warning necessary for the prevention or successful treatment of many diseases. Others feel that screening is economically impractical. But Dr. Marvin Klein, who runs Checkup, a private, computerized diagnostic center in Chicago, offers evidence that the process can pay. By screening members of a union that subscribed to his service, he uncovered signs of glaucoma, a serious eye disease, in six. Two of the patients would have gone blind without prompt treatment. The projected cost of supporting...
...physical checkup last month indicated, Nixon is remarkably fit, his blood pressure excellent. Although he takes a full dinner, he eats sparingly at breakfast and lunch. His weight is an optimum 170 Ibs., down 2 Ibs. in the past year. Nixon usually gets to bed by 11:30 or midnight, rises about 7 a.m. He shaves himself with a safety razor in the morning, handles the old beard problem with a quick runover by electric razor in the afternoon. If he is to appear in public or on television in the evening, he shaves again with a safety razor...
Wait Till Next Year. Despite the frenetic peregrinations of the last days of the 91st Congress, Administration operatives found the turn of the year a time for self-examination. President Nixon helicoptered to Bethesda Naval Hospital for his annual physical checkup; his doctors found him to be in "excellent health," even to have "a young man's blood pressure." His political standing seemed less clear. At the end of 1970 the Nixon men, reported TIME White House Correspondent Simmons Fentress, were "still a bit defensive, like ballplayers who can only tell the fans to wait until next year." Nixon...
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