Word: lumbago
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...