Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jobs. In the Senate, all eyes will be on Democratic Whip Russell Long of Louisiana, who is scheduled to become chairman of the Finance Committee in place of Virginia's Harry Byrd, who resigned from the Senate in November because of ill health. Long will be the first man in memory to hold both jobs, but Senate friends say that he has his eye on yet another job: the Senate majority leadership, now held by Montana's unassertive Mike Mansfield. "We all love Mike," says one Democratic Senator, "but many of us don't like...
...Florida's Senator George Smathers, 52, secretary of the Senate Democratic Conference and the second-ranking Democratic member of the Finance Committee, announced that he will retire after his third term expires in January 1969, because of ill health. Smathers has been suffering from a stomach ulcer and a kidney ailment, but declines to specify the illness that is ending his congressional career. Before entering Georgetown University Hospital last week for tests, he described his condition as "serious, complex but not incurable...
...Cabinet was suave conservative Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 39. Giscard's severe anti-inflationary policies were what put the crimp in private expansion and public spending-or at least so the voters thought. He remains an aide whom De Gaulle can ill afford to antagonize, for his 35-man Independent Republican party gives De Gaulle's U.N.R. its ten-man majority in the National Assembly. Two of his Independent Republicans were given portfolios...
...through the long plane trip home from Viet Nam last September, Columnist Marguerite Higgins was violently ill. Her body ached; her fever flared as high as 105 degrees. At home, intermittent bouts of pain and fever drained her strength, but she continued to write three columns a week. In early November she had to be hospitalized at Walter Reed. Doctors at first thought that she had picked up the drug-resistant malaria that has reached almost epidemic proportions in Viet Nam. Later, they suspected she might have cancer. But an exploratory operation uncovered nothing, and meanwhile her condition continued...