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...complaining of fearsome headaches. She laughed them off at first as migraines, and plowed herself with more pills, heavy doses of mild downers, and, as the pains grew persistent, barbituates. She was fighting them in bouts of up to two hours, once clutching a twisted face to her chest in a rigid fetal position on the floor. "She would have done anything, anything at all, to make the pain stop," Harley says. "The doctor couldn't tell what was wrong, and for all we knew the pills were making it worse." And the pains beat on like bolts...
...hospital further increases efficiency by scheduling only one kind of examination each month. Last month's exam consisted of chest X rays; this month's will involve blood tests and urinalysis. For women, the March checkup will include Pap smears, which help detect cervical cancer, and men will undergo prostate examinations. Leg and foot examinations are scheduled for April, while eye examinations are planned for May. The 12-month cycle will start again next January...
...workers at a Paterson, N.J., asbestos plant. They documented their work in scientific papers and meetings. They also showed that even small quantities of asbestos fiber could be lethal. Selikoff studied a woman who died of mesothelioma, a cancer of the membrane that covers the lungs and lines the chest and abdomen. The woman's only contact with asbestos came when she washed the clothing of her husband, who worked in an asbestos plant...
David Halberstam returns to Cambridge to push his latest best-seller, a new way to determine if you have lung cancer or cataracts, entitled The Chest and the Eye Test...
...others involved in the Watergate operation were not identified during the trial, when they could have been by those testifying." After he had read the letter and watched newsmen rush for telephones, the import struck Sirica again, almost like a physical blow. He felt pains in his chest, ordered a recess in the proceedings and retired to his chambers to rest...