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...Rickenbacker sailed to England to buy engines for a racing team. He was already known to sportswriters as "the Happy Heinie" and "the Wild Teuton," so suspicious British officials took no chances with him. They detained him on arrival, tore his shoes apart looking for messages and scrubbed his chest with lemon juice in the hope of finding secret writing. He was, of course, both completely clean and completely loyal...
...toothbrush, he began brushing vigorously, trying to remove every trace of a sweet red wafer handed him a moment before by the technician. "It tastes like candy!" he yelled to a screaming crowd of balloon-carrying children, as pink foam from the brushing streamed over his sunburned chest...
...could creep sideways; a black and white photograph of two messes of junk plunked on a studio floor; a large TV screen on which a pair of lips were painstakingly mouthing "lip syne" again and again; another TV screen with a man smearing lather all over his naked hairy chest; a color photograph of a pair of hands waxing the red plastic letters "HOT;" a rusted steel plate called "Dark"--the artist claimed to have written "dark" on its underside; a bunch of dirt...
...suspect it did not come on suddenly," Tkach told reporters at the hospital. "I suspect he felt tired and didn't want to say anything to me about it." Just returned from a 16-day sojourn at San Clemente, Nixon had begun feeling pains in his chest on Wednesday night. He put in a full day's work on Thursday, then finally agreed Thursday night to check into the hospital. Tkach (pronounced tuh-kosh) said that the President would spend from seven to ten days there. He was, said Tkach, "moderately sick." Nixon was given an antibiotic...
...viral pneumonias, the prescriptions and prognoses are clear: analgesics (probably aspirin) to control fever and relieve headache, aching muscles and chest pain; bed rest; and lots of fluids. The President's fever of 101°-102° was neither unusual nor threatening. Still, the disease is considered serious enough for a man of his age to require the seven to ten days in hospital that Nixon was told to expect...