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...Player's complaint was a stiff neck, the consequence of trying to do calisthenics in his bathtub. "I can only manage half a backswing," he groaned. Peter Thomson kept quiet-mostly because he had never felt better in his life. For four years, he had been plagued by chronic hay fever, but Royal Birkdale's sea breeze was just the thing for his sniffles...
...such chronic debtors, many psychiatrists detect a glint of masochism. "Consider the language of debt," says Manhattan's Dr. Harold Greenwald. "People have to 'beat someone out of his money,' or debtors are 'pushed to the wall' by their creditors." One of Greenwald's patients wept after he paid off his last creditor; he felt as if he were leaving someone who needed him. San Francisco's Dr. Alfred Auerback believes that overwhelming debt creates enormous tensions and strains within families. "Young people today," says he, "assume they should have...
...worse than second in 14 out of his 17 years on the job, and 3) just signed a two-year $40,000-a-year contract would be a contented man. Not the Chicago White Sox's Alfonso Ramon Lopez, 56. "I am," sighs Manager Lopez, "a sufferer." A chronic stomach problem keeps him from eating raw fruits and vegetables, and forces him to drink milk (which he detests) during White Sox losing streaks...
...Wrongdoing or Impotence." A year later, T.R. enunciated his "Roosevelt Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine Bluntly, Teddy declared: "Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may in America as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States however reluctantly ... to the exercise of an international police power " Teddy's was the Big Stick. In 1903 after the U.S. had kicked the Spaniards out of Cuba and supported Panama...
...forced a devaluation of the pound, brought down the Labor government and had profound effects on the West's entire monetary system. When the moneymen speak, governments listen carefully. They practically forced the Wilson government to take restrictive measures, pressured the U.S. Government into steps to correct its chronic balance-of-payments deficit and helped cool the sterling crises...