Word: lumbago
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...landed in the hospital with an illness called camp fever; he never returned to his regiment. "When he came home, he looked like a dead boy," declared the affidavit of an Ohio friend. For years after the war, Seif wrote to Washington requesting a pension increase, complaining of neuralgia, lumbago, catarrh, headaches and heart trouble. By 1927, the year he died, Seif was receiving $90 a month, an amount granted, according to notes from a nameless bureaucrat, because he was blind and totally helpless. "I didn't know that," says Konecny, shaking her head sadly. Turning over the last papers...
...these ails, the quest for help may be as exasperating as the pain itself. Too often, each specialist who is consulted has a different explanation of what is wrong and, more vexing, a different way of setting it right. For example, some doctors still speak of lumbago and sciatica. But these are notoriously imprecise terms for generalized pain in the lower back or neighboring areas that may be the consequence of various difficulties. Says Murray Goldstein, deputy director of the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke: "All treatments are controversial, and the reason is an almost complete...
...Eroticism. There is also a subplot involving Shanks' assistant (Cindy Eilbacker), a perky little number who is killed by some menacing motorcyclists. Shanks, though a timid fellow, manages to do in the villains and reactivate the girl. As she walks toward Shanks haltingly, like a marionette with lumbago, she holds her arms out to embrace him. The scene ends with the girl, who is about old enough to qualify for the junior-varsity cheerleading squad, half dancing with Shanks and half hugging him. There is an unmistakable hint of eroticism here, but Shanks' fantasy ends just before things...
Nixon trip this week for LIFE. But he began having backaches last year; what he dismissed as lumbago turned out to be cancer. Chou showed his concern by dispatching two doctors and a nurse from Peking, but they could not help. Last week, with his wife, son and daughter at his bedside, Snow, 66, died in his farmhouse at Eysins, Switzerland -on the Chinese New Year's Day, and just six days before President Nixon's arrival in Peking. Said Mao in a personal message to Snow's widow: ''His memory will live forever...