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Jewish Vote. When a reporter mentioned a rumor that she was going for a medical checkup before returning to Israel, she said: "It's nothing serious. A touch of cancer here, a little tuberculosis there-you name it." Then she disposed of the rumor with one of her favorite words: "Nonsense!" At a kosher affair for 2,500 held at the Brooklyn Museum, she even did a little campaigning for hard-pressed Mayor John Lindsay, who desperately needs the Jewish vote to win re-election next month. Golda called him "my good friend John," and wished that...
...himself." The question was significant, since the Vatican often uses the paper to express its views. Munich's Julius Cardinal Döpfner announced that his auxiliary for the" time being would handle administrative responsibilities but not sacerdotal duties. Defregger himself entered a Munich hospital "for a thorough checkup and general rest...
...periodic checkup of the wine cellar, one carabiniere became suspicious of the pale rose color of the liquid. Investigation revealed that the Biblical miracle of Cana had been reversed-the wine had somehow turned to water. The police were chagrined-and utterly perplexed. How had so vast a quantity of wine been removed from the cellar...
...whereby a patient is analyzed by a computer. The diagnosis could be verified by a doctor, and certainly the progress of the treatment would be supervised by him. Such an analysis would reveal a number of treatable malfunctions, many of which are not even tested for in a general checkup. Doctors would upgrade programs as required...
Next day Nixon helicoptered from his hotel to the clinic of Dr. John Lungren, a Long Beach internist who has traveled with his campaign party in every national race since 1952, to get his annual physical checkup. He was pronounced in "excellent condition," agreed to use the White House pool for occasional exercise, then toured a community-built hospital near by. He found a lesson there too. Many Americans, he said, think that they can escape rising medical costs by the "knee-jerk reaction" of asking the Federal Government to provide "some kind of a system of free medical care...