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Nixon's lung clot was evidently a small one-only "dime-size," speculated Dr. John Lungren, the ex-President's internist. Lungren and Radiologist Earl K. Dore discovered the clot through two recently refined tests using radioactive isotopes. First they injected human albumen tagged with radioactive iodine-131 or technetium into an arm vein. The radiant particles circulated through the small blood vessels of Nixon's lungs, and a scintillation scanner took an electronic "picture" of their distribution. Nixon's scan showed a blank area on the outer side of the right lung: the clot...
Meanwhile in Baltimore, Tommy Davis capped the Birds' three-run rally in the ninth with a two-out, two-run single. Andy Etchebarren had started the rally off loser Mickey Lolich, 16-20, with a single. Curt Motten followed with a walk and Birds' boss Earl Weaver replaced both players with pinch-runners...
Best cold comfort: Secretary Earl Butz's reassurance that though prices will keep rising, the U.S. will not run out of food...
...drought hurt production of feed grains so badly that the Agriculture Department now estimates that retail food prices, far from going down, will rise another 4% to 5% in this year's second half, then go up some more in 1975. The best hope that Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz can offer is that next year's rise will be less than 10%, v. 15% this year...
Died. Karl Earl Mundt, 74, former Republican Senator from South Dakota; in Washington, D.C. A college speech teacher before his election to Congress in 1938, the stocky, amiable Mundt applied his oratorical talents to the cause of American isolationism before Pearl Harbor awakened him to international concerns. A supporter of the United Nations and sponsor of the bill creating the Voice of America, he became a tough postwar antiCommunist. As acting chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee, he helped young Richard Nixon push the investigation of Alger Hiss. Elected to the Senate in 1948, Mundt reluctantly chaired...