Word: ike
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...grandfather was West Point, class of '15, his dad, class of '44; now David Eisenhower, 18, is putting a hitch in the family's military pitch. An honor graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Ike's only grandson will enter Amherst College this fall, instead of the Military Academy. "His parents felt that the decision should be David's alone," said Grandma Mamie in a McCall's interview...
...Kosygin and Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev aside for an intimate chat. Western newsmen goggled at the sight of the burly Brezhnev locking De Gaulle in a bear hug while stressing an important point. "Eisenhower could have had this kind of reception," groused one American. "De Gaulle is just stealing Ike's show...
...could cut iron with their swords, throw the bar farther or wind the horn louder than their fellows-Achilles and Ulysses, Siegfried and Roland, Beowulf and Richard the Lionhearted." Their latter-day American equivalents might be Douglas MacArthur, reconquering the Pacific, true to his vow, "I shall return," and Ike Eisenhower, commanding the massed D-day armies or winning his sweeping 1952 election victory. But it is difficult to imagine Beowulf getting only ten nominating votes as Republican candidate for President (which is what happened to MacArthur), or Roland trying to govern with benign passivity (which is what Ike...
...catalogue of Ike's complaints is considerable: swollen and painful wrists and hands; a touch of arthritis in the left knee, presumably the result of an old football injury; bursitis in the left elbow, similar to some old trouble in his right shoulder. But neither for him nor his fellow sufferers is any preventive medicine effective. Indeed, it took Walter Reed's expert doctors weeks of tests before they could put the label "osteoarthritis" on their patient's wrist pains. After that, the prescription was as simple as the diagnosis had been painstaking: aspirin to ease...
...years ago and in the remains of Stone Age man. In ancient Egypt, the disease was no more a respecter of Pharaohs than it is of Presidents today. The Greeks supplied one name, arthritis (from arthron, joint, and itis, inflammation), but most victims of so-called arthritic conditions, like Ike, have little or no inflammation. More recent and precise terms are arthrosis and osteoarthrosis. Medieval physicians adopted another Greek term, rheumatikos (from rheuma, flow), because they thought the conditions resulted from a flow of noxious "humors" (fluids) into the joints...