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...Rhee is ailing. One afternoon last week, while posing for a photographer, he suddenly broke out into a sweat, clutched his side and swayed slightly. Aides helped him to his bedroom, called an army surgeon. The diagnosis: gastritis. A graver impairment of his energy is his chronic insomnia, which often allows him only two or three hours sleep at night...
...college students like to drink and drink quite a lot, but their alcoholic problems are very few," she said. "There is no real problem of alcoholism in universities. A few college students do get into the basic stages of alcoholism, but I know of none who have reached a chronic stage...
...constantly amazed at the almost daily abuse and vilification of Britain and all things British, so evident in both the American press and American manners. Your magazine's counter-criticism of the British press [TIME, Feb. 2] therefore strikes me at best as being a chronic case of the pot calling the kettle black...
...Greece's chronic trade deficit is only one-fifth of what...
...next eight days, in scanty clothing and with almost no food, Yeo-Thomas wandered westward across the Saxon plain. Broken by torture, starvation and a chronic case of dysentery, his body somehow kept going, even when his mind was delirious. At last, just as he was about to make contact with the advancing U.S. forces, a German patrol picked him up. Weak as he was, Yeo-Thomas promptly organized another mass escape. One day later he staggered with his companions into an American outpost. "Don't shoot!" he shouted. "Escaping prisoners of war!" Said an American soldier: "Well...