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...Congress, most especially members of Mills' own party. In sorrow, House Speaker Carl Albert announced that Mills would not be Ways and Means chairman when the 94th Congress convened in January. A confused and ailing Mills checked himself into the Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., for a checkup and a badly needed rest...
Gerald Ford was deep in preparations for the last of his series of economic summits Thursday morning when his wife Betty stopped in at the Bethesda Naval Medical Center in nearby Maryland for a routine medical checkup. The examination soon developed into a searing personal and family concern. There was a nodule in her right breast. To determine if it was malignant, an operation would be necessary. The Fords wasted no time deciding: Betty would return late the next day to prepare for the exploratory surgery-and the answer that every woman fears...
...hypertension medications that have just been linked with increased risk of breast cancer (see MEDICINE). True, she had not detected the lump in her breast by self-examination, which might have prevented a delay of days or weeks. But when a lump was found in her routine checkup at Bethesda Naval Medical Center, she consented to immediate exploratory surgery, with the all-important proviso that if malignancy was detected, the doctors could remove the breast...
...flying to San Clemente to see her father, Julie Nixon Eisenhower told a press conference in New York City: "Mother says he is more irritable than usual, but that is because of his leg... He is taking medication and getting better, but he has to go in for a checkup...
This short, urgent essay on the world's chances for survival has all the cheerfulness of a medical warning de livered to a middle-aged man after a bad checkup. "Slow down," Doc Heilbroner in effect says to the human race. "You're not the kid you once were. You can't burn the candle at both ends any more - maybe not even at one end, the way your energy resources are going. And you'll have to trim down that population bulge. Keep on doing what you're doing...