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...Admiral William Lukash, the President's personal physician. After an examination, Lukash promptly ordered the Interior Secretary into Bethesda Naval Medical Center. From there last week came word that Hathaway was suffering from exhaustion and "reactive depression" (for which psychiatric care has been prescribed). He also has a mild case of diabetes, which will require no insulin, only dietary control...
That first crucial grasp of language (which Percy dubs, for personal reasons, the "Delta Factor") is the object of "a mild twenty-year obsession" on Percy's part. It separates man from beast; it gives him a unique tool for understanding his condition. Percy associates it with another obsession of his, the sort of inexplicable, poetic joy that everyone experiences from time to time--this he calls the "Helen Keller phenomenon," because it is the way Helen Keller felt when, later than most people, she first connected the word water with the actual item. But he also blames language...
Slow Clock. The man responsible for all this is a mild and scholarly former art-history student. Inside his Tokyo apartment there are TV sets everywhere, James Brown or Elvis billowing from the kitchen radio, and a clock on the wall that appears to be five hours slow. "We like to think of it as being seven hours fast," says Tomita, long resigned to the incongruity of being an electronics master who cannot fix a clock...
...years ago?at least in the U.S., Canada, Western Europe and Japan ?this modern capitalism seemed to be on the verge of producing the permanently affluent society. Keynesian policies had kept recessions brief, mild and infrequent; the end of World War II opened the longest period of sustained growth ever. American Economist George Stigler announced that "economics is finally at the threshold of its Golden Age?nay, we already have one foot through the door...
Word of the lunch eventually got to CBS Newsman Daniel Schorr, who on Feb. 28 reported the President's concern about CIA assassination plots. Schorr's report stirred a mild sensation, and former CIA Director Richard Helms denounced the reporter as "Killer Schorr! Killer Schorr!" But by then the Rockefeller commission was well into its investigation, and its final report pleads -not too convincingly-that there was not enough time to examine the subject fully. Schorr refuses to identify his source...