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...time he got to St. James Hospital in Chicago Heights, 25 miles south of the Loop, Farmer Ralph Douma, 72, was already in desperate shape. His jaw was stiff, and he could hardly open his mouth. He had difficulty in swallowing, and he was suffering from severe pains in his legs and back. St. James doctors had no trouble diagnosing Douma's problem: he was dying from tetanus (lockjaw) caused by a dirty wooden splinter he had picked up in his chicken yard 13 days before...
...field director of the Teamsters' warehouse division. Baron told how he and labor's little Napoleon had been feuding for years. During an argument in the union's Washington headquarters, Baron said, Hoffa suddenly began advancing on him with fists clenched and jaw muscles twitching. "I thought," said Baron, " 'This man is absolutely out of his mind.' Before I know it, he swings and catches me in the left eye and knocks me down. I got up-I wish I had the muscles, but I don't-and all I could do, I banged...
...storage bond to Miss Mary Jones. At his press conference last week, President Kennedy came to Freeman's defense but on rather odd grounds-not that Freeman had been doing a good job but that he played football in college, made Phi Beta Kappa, "had most of his jaw shot off in Bougainville," and served three terms as Governor of Minnesota. These points are true enough, but irrelevant. All Kennedy said about Freeman as Secretary was that the job had been "challenging." Having made a weak defense, Kennedy followed up with a weak counterattack...
...action turns on the amorous experiences of each member of the family except the brat. Father smashes the jaw of a celebrated shoulder kisser who specializes in middle-aged mothers. His daughter falls in love with a miserable young architect who cannot believe in marriage until the young girl's golden example and courageous fortitude in refusing his more immediate advances win him over to a vision of permanent happiness...
President Kennedy sided with the talkers. At his press conference last week, he fell back on one of Winston Churchill's less felicitous and least meaningful phrases to state his case: "It is better to jaw-jaw than war-war." Kennedy obviously did not mean to suggest that war will start if the jawing stops, but he pointedly told Adenauer that the U.S. intends to go on jawing, even if there is little hope of accomplishment. The U.S., as Berlin's chief defender, has a right to "at least explore possibilities of finding a better solution...