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Later Navy Captain William Fouty, who is chief of surgery at the hospital, assured Ford that the operation had gone very well. Dr. Lukash told reporters: "Throughout this ordeal, Mrs. Ford exhibited an atmosphere of confidence and demonstrated an inner strength that sustained not only her family and close staff but also the doctors...
...Betty Ford was in the hospital battling cancer, the nation thought of her with warmth and sympathy. She was undergoing a physical ordeal that all Americans dread and that has become almost familiar. But for many years she has also undergone a psychological ordeal, far less serious and less familiar, but nagging and pervasive: the tribulations that befall so many wives of politicians. Though at the center of a close and apparently happy family, Betty Ford has often come near the end of her nervous resources. It is a rather special occupational disease that has become a serious factor...
...seconds. Twice they hustled him out of the downpour and into dry quarters, laid him flat on his back, stripped the wet clothing away, gave him a shot of whisky, then dressed him again before carrying him back to the campaign wars. Despite the day's trying ordeal, Roosevelt's smile was triumphant. Three million people-and the national press-had seen what seemed to be a vigorous man in action...
...near the Lindbergh home. Bruno Richard Hauptmann, a Bronx carpenter, was later convicted in probably the most celebrated trial of the century, and then electrocuted for the murder. Throughout the search for Charles Jr. and throughout the Hauptmann trial, the Lindberghs were hounded by the press, which treated their ordeal with savage sensationalism. Finally, Lindbergh packed up his family (there were eventually five other children) and moved to Britain and then France, where he stayed until the eve of World...
...fill out and sign a form, called la fiche, establishing his identity, address, occupation and, if a foreigner, his passport number. Fichisme is not only a chore for hoteliers, who must turn in the forms to the commissariat. For loving-if uncertified-couples, it can also be a mortifying ordeal, involving all the devices and evasions of a Feydeau comedy...