Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more or less dominated by Kenyatta's politically powerful tribe, the Kikuyu. The first includes the Kenyatta family and its political cronies, whose power is tribally based. The strongest member of the group is former Foreign Minister Njoroge Mungai, 52, who was also Kenyatta's cousin and personal physician. But the handsome Mungai lost his parliamentary seat in 1974, largely because of his reputation for high living, and thus is not eligible to run for President. That leaves Mbiyu Koinange, 71, a longtime friend and colleague of Kenyatta's, as the faction's most eligible candidate...
...softball and baseball, weekend jocks fracture ankles and dislocate shoulders sliding into bases, their leg muscles get strained from sprinting, and shoulder muscles tear from pitching. "Throwing one's arm out" is no mere figure of speech. Dr. James Purdy, emergency-room physician at Northside Hospital in Atlanta, recalls one softball player who threw the ball so hard he shattered his upper arm bone. A hard-hit ball can have a shattering effect of its own when hand-eye coordination fails...
...candor: "It has been said that I am riding on the coattails of my dad. I can't think of any better coattails to ride on." She will doubtless continue to use them when she faces the Democratic primary winner, Bill Roy, 52, a former Congressman and a physician who boasts that he has delivered 5,500 babies...
...Angolans, Russians, Mexicans, Britons, Vietnamese and even a 400-member U.S. delegation trooped into Havana for singing, dancing, stadium pageantry, rap sessions and some frolicking on Cuba's beaches, they faced an additional event: the Youth Accuses Imperialism International Tribunal. A panel of eight "judges," headed by Uruguayan Physician Hugo Villar, heard scores of witnesses reel off accusations-some old, some true, many distorted or false-against the CIA. One star witness was Philip Agee, a former CIA agent now turned professional anti-agency muckraker. Other witnesses related details of a 1962 CIA poisoning scheme (during a time, admittedly...
MARRIAGE REVEALED. Taylor Caldwell, 77, prolific and bestselling novelist (This Side of Innocence, Dear and Glorious Physician, Great Lion of God); and Robert Prestie, 60, her manager; she for the fourth time, he for the second; on July 6 in Erie...