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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Little strokes, a heart attack, cancer. Rumors of these illnesses-and worries about how they would affect his fitness for office-hovered around Franklin Delano Roosevelt as early as 1936. By 1944, when he was 62 and running for an unprecedented fourth term as President, the rumors had become persistent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Did Roosevelt Have Cancer? | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Beckett is photogenic; perhaps only Ezra Pound is more so, the secret being not to care what people think of you. This scorn for public taste seems distinctly 20th century. Beckett won't acknowledge the camera, and defies close-up. His wrinkles are far more impressive than W.H. Auden's...

Author: By Peter Swaab, | Title: Waiting for Photo | 12/13/1979 | See Source »

Rockefeller was clearly the man who alerted Administration officials to the Shah's medical problems. The banker has conceded that he helped arrange for the examination of the Shah in Mexico by Dr. Benjamin Kean, a New York specialist in tropical diseases. Rockefeller said that Kean "confirmed the gravity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Who Helped the Shah How Much? | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

The overwhelming difficulty about full reunion is the power and the office of the papacy itself. The Orthodox hold that religious authority derives from the church as a whole and is expressed through ecumenical councils. In Catholicism, the Pope is the ultimate arbiter. This split seemingly became unbridgeable in 1870...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Toward the Tomorrow of God | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

It happens to every man sooner or later: eager to have sex, he finds himself impotent, unable to achieve or sustain an erection. For most men such disappointments are fleeting episodes in otherwise successful sex lives. But for perhaps as many as 10 million American males impotence is a devastating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Aiding Nature | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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