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Great and Noble. In front of the pulpit, the body of Mister Sam lay in a bronze casket under a mantle of deep red roses. "Whatever was great and noble in his life shall abide forever," said the Rev. Bernard Braskamp, chaplain of the House. "We are not saying farewell, only good night." Elder H. G. Ball, the Primitive Baptist Church pastor who had baptized Sam Rayburn just five years ago, intoned the eulogy. Then, while the organ played America, the Beautiful, six of Mister Sam's lifelong friends carried him away...
...Damnedest Thing. By late August the cancer had so ravaged the old man that he could no longer carry on. Mister Sam had a pretty good idea of what ailed him-and he determined to go home to Texas to die. Still, as he left Washington four weeks before Congress adjourned, he defiantly promised to return for the next session in January...
...first name, but an honorary title roughly meaning mister. Thant means clean or clear in Burmese, hence one reporter's nickname for U Thant: Mr. Clean...
Such a drug is 5-fluorouracil (pronounced floo-or-oh-you're-a-sill), which Dallas physicians started giving, at the beginning of last week, to House Speaker Sam Rayburn. It is usually given only to selected patients who have already had surgery, radiation or both. Mister Sam's body was so riddled with spreading cancer (probably from a growth in the pancreas) that surgery was not possible. All the doctors could do at first was try to slow the march of the disease by chemical warfare against cancer cells...
...Ralph Tompsett. spokesman for Dallas' Baylor University Medical Center, said that Mister Sam tolerated the first big doses well, and had no nausea. A midweek bout of pneumonia interrupted the treatment, but Rayburn rallied quickly. After that he was given FUDR (5-fluoro-2'-deoxyuridine), which is a close chemical kin of 5-fluorouracil and works the same...