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...recuperation continued-L.B.J. style. Though the President's throat was still sore from the removal of the polyp on his vocal cord, he held lengthy, vigorous phone conversations with Administration leaders in Washington. The President stayed in his room late some mornings, but he was not, it was explained, being a slugabed. Propped up on pillows, he labored over intelligence reports, diplomatic cables, and of course the federal budget. The word went out from the ranch that $1.1 billion-25% of the $4.4 billion total allocated-would be chopped from the federal highway program, an economy move that...
...nose-throat specialists), headed by Dr. Wilbur J. Gould of Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital, reconnoitered the presidential larynx, the territory in which they would be operating at dawn. The polyp, about the shape and consistency of a tiny button mushroom, was growing from the right vocal cord. Surgeon George A. Hallenbeck of the Mayo Clinic and Dr. David P. Osborne, a Navy surgeon, examined the presidential abdomen, where a lump the size of a golf ball protruded near the scar left by his gallbladder operation. Then the two groups of surgeons got together in a skull session with...
...expected, and a bit lower down. Still, it was a simple though delicate procedure to work his cupped forceps around so that he got almost all of the polyp at one snip. Two more snips removed tiny bits from its edges, where it had been attached to the vocal cord...
...plan was to bind the women, tie plastic bags over their heads, and watch them while they suffocated. After mulling it over for weeks, he set out from his home early one morning last week with a brown paper bag containing 200 ft. of nylon cord, a package of big plastic sandwich bags, two hunting knives and, for good measure, a .22-cal., single-action six-shooter that his parents had given...
Light & Knife. The polyp (from the Greek polypodos, many-footed) near the President's vocal cord is a soft growth that looks something like a miniature octopus. Polyps are common in many parts of the body; misuse of the vocal cords seems to encourage their development in the larynx. The great majority are benign tumors, but while the President is still under the anesthetic, his polyp will be cut up and examined under the microscope to make sure there is no malignancy. Removal is a simple matter of inserting a tube with a light at the end down...