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Only three hours after he had awakened, Johnson walked a few steps. He complained of "some discomfort," looked pallid and faced the irksome prospect of a lightened work load until mid-November. Some slowdown! The morning after his operation, newsroom teletypes across the U.S. clattered out an Associated Press bulletin: WASHINGTON, OCT. 9 (AP) PRESIDENT JOHNSON WAS UP BEFORE DAWN TODAY AND SIGNED INTO LAW 13 BILLS...
...patients' complaints. Those who had had ragweed extract in their shots were found to have had only about half the comparison group's episodes of sneezing, nose running, eye watering and itching. It was official at last: those millions of injections were worth the cost and discomfort...
...average American family is now $4,700 in debt-an amount equal to 60% of its annual income after taxes. Americans plunged much more deeply into debt during April, the latest recorded month, when consumer installment credit grew by $744 million, an alltime monthly high. Such records discomfort many economic experts-notably including William McChesney Martin Jr.-who fear that the credit society may eventually lead to the kind of overbuilding, overbuying and overpricing that could bring on a recession...
...sharp is the line of demarcation between the deeply frozen tumor and adjacent warm tissue that the mass can be cleanly removed. Seven patients treated by this technique have also been spared the discomfort of repeated nasal packings, which usually followed old-style surgery...
...finger can check the position of a button on the side of the probe as it nears the prostate. The cold is then turned on. The patient needs a catheter (a plastic tube) through the urethra for a few days to permit urination, but has far less discomfort than with older procedures and is in much less danger of infection. So far, the Buffalo doctors have used this method in 50 cases, 17 of them with cancer. The results: "Most encouraging...