Word: lumbago
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...that source. How could the IBM machine know what to do with a flood of requests for a room on Mon., Wed., and Fri. at 10, the most popular hour? Kennedy smiles, pours over Mr. Barre's chart and says, "An IBM machine couldn't tell that Professor Jones' lumbago demands a ground floor lecture hall, or that Abernathy finds inspiration only with a northern light." No Scientla ex machina for Harvard...
...Sportspalast for the annual German jitterbug championship, watched husky Helga Haier, 21, and her real cool partner Dieter Heidemann, 20, stomp, slide and swivel their way to first place in a style that, by comparison, made many a U.S. practitioner of the art look like a whirling dervish with lumbago. ¶In Paris, two great American institutions-the quiz program and the striptease-were ingeniously fused. Every night, in a nightclub called L'Academic des Vins, a model named Mile. Genevieve appears, tastefully clad, on the stage while a quizmaster flings questions at the audience. Each customer giving...
...Duke of Windsor, after a bout of stomach trouble in Italy (with diagnoses ranging from gastroenteritis to ulcers), arrived in Paris with another ailment: an attack of lumbago so severe that the duchess and a plainclothesman had to help him off the train and into a waiting limousine, where he sat beside the chauffeur to get more leg room...
Still suffering from a sharp attack of lumbago, Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion arrived in Washington for a four-week tour of the U.S. After a luncheon with the President and a confab with Government officials, he got down to work on the real purpose of his trip: to help launch the new $500,000,000 Israeli bond issue (TIME, April...
...Copenhagen, Denmark's King Frederik IX took the day off with a touch of lumbago. The rest of the family was feeling poorly, too. Queen Ingrid had the flu, and the three little princesses had chicken...