Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pique at an intransigent Nehru. The First Lady had ridden to hounds a fortnight ago at her Virginia estate, and last week went water-skiing off Palm Beach while her husband watched from the presidential yacht Honey Fitz. But the fact remained: Jackie had been examined by White House Physician Janet Travell and a specialist at Bethesda Naval Medical Center-and the trouble was sinus...
...brain waves, skewered their hands with electrodes to pick up the electrical impulses that would tell how quickly their muscles responded to nerve stimulation. Glenn held up tenaciously under tests of heat and vibration, did especially well with problems of logical reasoning. Says Dr. Stanley White, a Project Mercury physician: "Glenn is a guy who lives by facts...
...ready to follow the flight. Three flotillas of ships deployed in the Atlantic to pick Glenn up. Glenn followed his low-residue diet (steak, eggs, toast, tea), went through a series of last-minute physical exams. Then, on three successive early mornings, Dr. William Douglas, the astronauts' personal physician, gently awoke John Glenn from a sound sleep to break the exasperating news that the flight had been scrubbed because of bad weather in recovery areas...
...throat. Both in selecting and cutting, Wallace's hand was sure from the start. With only minor amendment, much of the February 1922 issue's table of contents could pass a Digest reader's muster today: "Keep Well" (an unexceptionable appeal from President Wilson's physician reprinted from Good Housekeeping); "Wanted-Motives for Motherhood," from Outlook...
...describes the 'welladjusted mid-twentieth century man, beautifully trained to a high level of mass consumption. This man is extremely difficult to describe as one who finds his ultimate concern in death, let alone God. Death tends to become a technical matter, representing more the struggle between the physician and the mortician than between life and death. He is anxious, disquieted and often desperate, but his anxieties seem oriented around his professional and social status, his sexual relations, and the dislocations of a revolutionary world...