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Nearly sleepless on some of his missions and occasionally arriving back in Washington so late that he and the President held their postmortems in Nixon's bedroom, Kissinger conceded that his trips were "hectic...
...spreading out over five weeks, to catch the high pressure time of exams" and the less hectic time at the start of the second semester, McKenna said...
...above the psychologically important 900 mark for the first time in three months. Volume in one session surged to 21.4 million shares, lifting a wide range of stocks, from blue-chip stalwarts to long-depressed aerospace issues like United Aircraft and McDonnell Douglas. At week's end less hectic trading had pushed the Dow Jones to 910, a gain of 112 points from last November...
This whole hectic, unrewarding world collapsed in 1918, when Eleanor, then 33, discovered that Franklin was having a serious affair with her secretary, Lucy Mercer. Eleanor offered a divorce but, thinking of his political career-and for once encountering opposition from his mother-Franklin agreed to leave Lucy. Thereafter, according to Lash, the intimate side of their marriage was over. As time passed, private relations in general deteriorated even further. Polio was for Franklin the permanent blow that Lucy Mercer was for Eleanor. He spent increasing amounts of time seeking cures in the South, especially Warm Springs, where Missy LeHand...
...Staffs are often inadequate. Although experienced physicians are "on call," most hospitals use interns to man their emergency rooms day to day. Others hire unlicensed foreign physicians, a practice that can raise dangerous communication problems in the hectic E.R. atmosphere...