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From the look of things at San Clemente, the quiet convalescence of Richard Nixon may be coming to an end. No longer bothered by the limp that resulted from his phlebitis and surgery, the former President has been seen strolling through his Casa Pacifica grounds with old Administration standbys, including former Attorney General John Mitchell, Banker Bebe Rebozo and former Military Adviser Jack Brennan. Wife Pat, meanwhile, has been busily tending to the Nixon estate, directing the work of her gardener and occasionally doing some pruning and weeding of her own. Last week, the former First Lady left her gardening...
...Housing, one of the recession's most severely hurt victims, continued to limp along in March; the number of housing starts dropped slightly below February levels to the appallingly low annual rate of 980,000. In California alone, 23% of the labor force in the construction industry is jobless. Housing executives hope that the new federal tax credit of up to $2,000 for buyers of new homes will eventually generate some business. Also, since a record influx of funds continues to pile up in savings institutions, mortgage money is becoming more plentiful and interest rates are going down...
...hearing aid for a deaf left ear, a painful lump on his right kneecap diagnosed as Osgood-Schlatter's disease, a hiatal hernia and a limp-the result of a World War II shrapnel wound. He also has a history of alcoholism, and after his first marriage failed, he suffered a nervous breakdown...
...without which summer cannot begin at all. Hanging the porch swing, gathering dandelion blossoms, pressing them, adding rain water and waiting for the bubbles of fermentation. A friend leaves town. An old man dies. Grandma cooks a mighty belly-boggling, legendary dinner. Douglas gets sick and lies loony and limp. He gets well. He and his brother rocket around town, crazy with motion. He hides, quiet, in the dark bed of ferns beside the porch, listening to the drone of grown-up voices; cigar ends glow in the dusk. His new sneakers fade, streak, scuff, and at last lose their...
Nixon's recovery from surgery last October has been gradual, and he occasionally favors his left leg, but he managed to play two holes of golf on Annenberg's private 18-hole course; his swing was surprisingly good, and there was no sign of a limp...