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...damask-hung walls of the Senate chamber reverberated with the longest, most heartfelt outpouring of affection and admiration that anyone could remember. Hubert Humphrey had returned to the place he loves "with blind devotion." Eleven weeks after doctors discovered that his pelvic cancer had spread and was beyond surgery, the "Happy Warrior" of the Democratic Party was back at the desk he has occupied for 21 years. TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angela reports...
...Hubert H. Humphrey, 66, indefatigable Minnesota Senator, former Vice President, and 1968 standard-bearer of the Democratic Party; with inoperable pelvic cancer; in Minneapolis. Doctors discovered a malignant tumor on Humphrey's pelvic bone during a four-hour operation to remedy a bowel obstruction. The Senator's cancerous bladder was removed last October. Although his condition is described as terminal because it is inoperable, doctors refused to say how long he might live. They plan to treat the tumor with chemotherapy to slow its growth, and expect that Humphrey will be able to return to the Senate...
...their stark eloquence, they are almost upstaged by the text-also by O'Keeffe. She describes her surroundings in Abiquiu, N. Mex., recalls the '20s when D.H. Lawrence was underfoot. Her voice is laconic, styleless, arrow straight to the point. About one of her pictures of bleached pelvic bones, she notes: "I was the sort of child that ate around the raisin on the cookie and ate around the hole in the doughnut. So probably-not having changed much -when I started painting pelvic bones I was most interested in the hole in the bone...
...make my cuts. The girdle keeps my hamstring from flapping around." Says Dr. Don Cooper, the Oklahoma State team physician who sold Miller and three of his teammates on the idea last season: "The girdle provides an evenness of support over the whole length of the hamstring, from the pelvic bone to the back of the knee. We cut out the crotch to allow for la différence. One player suffered a pinched testicle before we realized that would be necessary...
Lucky One. The essential Sills is found in a tough, highly articulate, professionally savvy, hard-working woman who knows how to keep her career going. After being hospitalized last fall for removal of a malignant growth in the pelvic area, she showed up a month later for work at the San Francisco Opera against her doctor's wishes. Her reasoning was that if she skipped her West Coast engagements, then took her scheduled vacation, she would be out of view for about three months. "That's too long. I just didn't want anybody to think...