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...Outstanding failure of 1953 was Britain's chronic failure-getting coal out of the ground. In 1953, coal production fell more than 1,000,000 tons from the preceding year. And British industry's progress toward modernization still had a long...
...worked twelve or more hours a day, at one point had 16 jobs (among them: Solid Fuels Administrator, Coordinator of Fisheries, Petroleum Administrator). He suffered from chronic exhaustion, and sometimes rose in the lonely hours of the night to dose himself gloomily with whisky in an attempt to sleep. But he somehow found time through the years to dictate 6,000,000 words of private diary...
...aircraft designer, has never forgotten a monumental nosebleed he suffered as a boy of ten in the Czarist city of Kiev. As he sat with cold compresses on his neck and waited miserably for his veins to close, he fell prey to an alarming thought: if his condition became chronic, he might never be able to become a flyer. One night a little later he dreamed of coursing the skies in the softly lit, walnut-paneled cabin of an enormous flying machine?a cabin he recognized with a start 30 years later when he went aboard...
...bones, joints and blood chemistry. Said Snyder: "All of these [tests] came out in good normal order." The President's blood pressure is running 140 to 150 over 80 to 90-excellent for a man of his age (63) and type. Aside from the elbow and a few chronic minor troubles (he is farsighted, has suffered for years from a trick knee, injured in a West Point football game), Ike is in tiptop form...
...Columnist Drew Pearson (who has used his nationally syndicated column to discuss Arnold's candidacy), Democrat Arnold has all of his party's organization support. There is another Democrat, named Irving Markheim, in the race, but he is a chronic candidate, has little vote-pulling power...