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...conclusion is based on studies of 156 patients at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA and the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center in Tucson. The patients had advanced cancers, usually of the lung, breast, colon and rectum, that could no longer be treated by standard methods. Laetrile was given intravenously for 21 days, then orally three times daily...
...unreal," Ronald Reagan recalled that at first he thought he had been hurt only by being shoved into the limousine by Secret Service Agent Jerry Parr. "When I suddenly found I was coughing up blood, we both decided that maybe I'd broken a rib and punctured a lung." On the way to the hospital, he began having trouble breathing. "The more I tried to breathe, it kept seeming as if I was getting less air. You know that panic that you can get if you're strangling on something." Only after arriving at the hospital did Reagan...
...around the second-floor bedroom and sitting room. He strolled in the Rose Garden and frequently visited the third-floor solarium to bask in the sunshine and admire the tulips that had bloomed while he was in the hospital. He took penicillin orally to guard against infection of the lung pierced by the would-be assassin's bullet. But that was Reagan's only medication. The President's personal physician, Dr. Daniel Ruge, found no need to conduct any extensive examinations on his twice daily visits. He merely performed brief checkups and asked the First Patient...
...prize for meritorious public service went to the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer for its series on brown lung disease among textile workers. The New York Times won two awards, for John Crewdson's reporting on America's immigration problems and Dave Anderson's commentary on sports. The criticism prize went to Jonathan Yardley of the Washington Star for his book reviews. Shirley Christian of the Miami Herald won the international reporting award for her coverage of Central America...
...President's fever was gone and his lung unclogged. Slightly gaunt, but on the mend, he padded last week at half speed around his hospital room. Then at week's end Ronald Reagan was driven in a limousine from George Washington University Hospital back home to the White House. Awaiting him there were some 75,000 letters and telegrams, several meadows' worth of flowers and an even ton of jelly beans...