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Ziegler said Nixon had called in his physician, Dr. Walter Tkach, at 5:30 a.m., complaining of discomfort in his right chest. After preliminary examinations, the president went to work, he said...
...least 360,000 men, women and youngsters behind bars in the U.S. today, and before the year ends, perhaps as many as a thousand will die there, many of conditions that would be considered both treatable and curable outside the walls. Thousands more will suffer from illness and discomfort so needless that they amount to cruel and unusual punishment. With few exceptions, inmates of the nation's correctional institutions must either go without medical care entirely or make do with treatment that is far below accepted standards...
...tough on vague answers. Lawyers all and unrestricted by courtroom rules of evidence, the interrogators constitute a fearsome array of antagonists for any witness who might try to sustain any lies. Equally merciless are the TV cameras, which reveal the slightest hesitation in answering or telltale signs of discomfort and deceit...
...pusher as well as the addict, and is reflected in higher prices. Most addicts ultimately are forced to turn to prostitution or crime (almost invariably against property, and only accidentally against person) to raise the money required for purchasing the drugs which will protect them from suffering the discomfort of a withdrawal syndrome. Thus the more completely enforced the prohibition, the scarcer the drug, and--in the case of a drug of addiction--the more crime will be associated with this drug, even though the capacity to induce antisocial behavior is not a pharmacological property of the drug...
...ideal way to age would be to grow slowly invisible, gradually disappearing, without causing worry or discomfort to the young." So writes Sharon Curtin in understated outrage at the many ways in which contemporary American society tries to shun and shut away its older members...