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...clock on the patio, with Dulles decked out in sports shirt, slacks and the hat. At 9:30 Army Captain Edward J. Kamin, an internal medicine specialist who had flown down in the presidential Columbine with Dulles and wife Janet from Washington, gave his patient a checkup. At 10:30 Dulles' capable personal assistant Joseph N. Greene called the State Department, got a 15-minute briefing, passed it along to his boss. "Well," said Dulles at one briefing's end, "let's go for a swim." After an hour in the pool, Dulles was ready...
...attempt to remove the bad-driving stigma from Luxembourg's good name, the coalition government last year pushed through a seemingly routine law requiring all of the grand duchy's drivers to undergo a yearly checkup on their cars, at their own expense ($4). It did not sit well. Opposition Leader Eugene Schaus charged that one firm had tried to bribe the Ministry of Transport to get the contract. Spurning the bribe, the minister eliminated the firm from the list of candidates. Aha, said Schaus, but had he reported the bribe attempt within six days, as required...
Periodic physical checkups, sometimes lasting a week or longer, have become an accepted ritual for the high-powered, high-priced organization man (TIME, Jan. 21. 1957), and one thing they have turned up is that many an executive in good physical trim has a headful of emotional problems. Last week Connecticut's Silver Hill Foundation announced that it is inviting corporations to send executives in for a six-day emotional checkup...
...what he calls "mental hygiene re-education." It may run to a few weeks or months of psychotherapy. There is never a written report to the executive's company, and Dr. Terhune passes as much responsibility as possible to the family doctor. All-inclusive check for the emotional checkup...
Seven Times Safety. The salesman drank three cases, generously let his sister have the fourth case. He would have taken more, but fortunately for him-and others-the Radithor outfit went out of business. Recently, responding to M.I.T.'s invitation, he presented himself for a checkup. Dr. Robley Dunglison Evans, 51, had him breathe into a glass flask, to test for radon gas in his breath, and into a mask hooked up to another flask to test for another gas, thoron, that has a half life of only 54 seconds. An ultra-sensitive scintillation counter scanned his whole body...