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...with German and Japanese officials who had been invited to the U.S. in great secrecy, because the approval of their governments was needed for the foreign-currency borrowings. (Japanese Vice Minister of Finance Takehiro Sagami blandly told anyone who asked that he was going to Washington for a medical checkup.) Though the White House denied...
...arms and helped him off the podium. For a time it seemed as though the 69-year-old veteran might be nearing the end of a career that has kept him at the head of the Soviet foreign ministry for an astonishing 22 years, but after a medical checkup and an hour's rest in a U.N. foyer, the durable Russian was back on the podium. His only complaint, he said, was against the "very, very hot" TV lights...
John Paul's unexpected death may also weigh in the conclave's choice. The health of a potential candidate will surely become a much more serious consideration. Professor Enrique Miret Magdalena of Madrid's University Institute of Theology has suggested that papal candidates should have a complete medical checkup, "just as you would do with someone considered for an important job in secular life." John Paul's fate may change attitudes toward the ages of papabili as well. Hitherto there has been an age "window" for candidates, ranging from the early 60s to the mid-70s, mainly because Cardinals feared...
...Arthur Bryant's in Kansas City, or when Dungeness crabs are moving smartly from Pacific to pots in San Francisco, Trillin is not just happy, he is beatific. He is also remarkably free of guilt. Reminded by his wife Alice that he weighed 180 lbs. at his last checkup, Trillin instantly reduces that figure: "I always allow fourteen pounds for clothes...
...doubtful Denholtz will do for dental consumers what Ralph Nader did for auto buyers a decade ago. But he appears to have brought consumerism to a profession in great need of a checkup...