Word: gallingly
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...proposed and was accepted. Luci received a ring made from Pat's Alpha Kappa Psi fraternity pin, which she has never worn in public. By the end of the month, headlines predicting their marriage bounced around the world. The President was at the L.B.J. ranch, recuperating from his gall-bladder operation, when Pat and Luci flew there on Oct. 29-presumably to obtain his permission to marry. It was widely surmised in print that the President, in an unusually dour mood, had vetoed their request. The situation evoked memories of Ulysses S. Grant, who brooded for 18 months before...
...Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, undergoing treatment for a urinary-tract infection. While there, he dropped in on Viet Nam casualties in the neuro-surgical ward. One young marine, Lance Corporal Virgil Bohler of Silsbee, Texas, had been there in October when Lyndon came by while recuperating from his gall-bladder operation. At that time, Bohler lay unconscious and near death with a bullet wound in his head...
...infinite variety of allergic or "serum sickness" reactions, and causes up to 300 U.S. deaths a year. Even the mildest of drug-induced difficulties, he added, should not be minimized, for the side effects are not limited to one generation. If a woman has certain radiopaque dyes injected for gall-bladder X rays, for example, a baby that she bears several years later may have an abnormal level of iodine in the blood...
...House and Paris, Publisher; John Spitxer '66-3 of Adams House and Berkeley, Editor-in-Chief; Michael S. Anaara '67 of Adams House and Cambridge. Roger A. Lewin '66-3 of Dudley House and Cleveland, and A. Douglas Matthews '66-3 of Lowell House and Fall River, Associate Editors; Gall L. Johnson '67 of Moors Hall and Wahpeton, N.D., Treasurer; J. Pendexter Macdonald '67 of Dudley House and Chicago, General Manager; and Hunter Lewis '67 of Straus Hall and Dayton, Promotion Manager...
That was rare Red praise for the non-Communist Rumanians who shared prison cells and torture at the hands of the Iron Guard during World War II. But it tied in neatly with Ceausescu's emphasis on "the nation as a form of human community." With Gaullist gall, Ceausescu also struck out against "military blocs" as "incompatible with the national independence and sovereignty of peoples." Was he suggesting a walkout from the Warsaw Pact...