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...with his big smile and happy handclasp. When engaged in engrossing conversation he grabbed his victim by the lapel or arm, or finger-pinched him vigorously in the chest. When bored (which was seldom), his eyes assumed a far away look. When in his cups (which was often), a scar under his nose and the three moles on his cheeks stood out from his flushed face. He offended the French by saying that in Paris (which he has never visited) "you cannot walk down a street without being accosted by a woman." Such bluff, blunt indiscretions were at least human...
...Kiev in 1939 a man in the uniform of a railroad official threw a bomb into the compartment of a train in which Khrushchev was sitting. Two passengers traveling with Khrushchev were killed. (The small slit scar under his nose is believed to be a memento of this incident...
...President started his Georgia vacation a panel of six doctors gave a press conference a full report on his latest physical examination. Presidential Physician Major General Howard Snyder led off with a flood of technical talk: "This cardiovascular examination revealed no physical abnormalities other than those associated with the scar in the heart muscle," said he. The two-centimeter (about ¾-in.) scar was "well-healed," blood pressure has been stable, circulation excellent, and the President has suffered neither shortness of breath nor anginal pains...
Then Snyder startled the reporters by announcing that weekly electrocardio grams "show residual abnormalities as a result of the scar in the heart muscle." The abnormalities "remain stable as is expected at this stage in the healing process. This stability is a desirable finding. The scar in the heart-muscle wall appears to be firm and of moderate size. Fluoroscopic examination indicates that the heart beat is good . . . The heart shadow, compared with films that were made in prior years and with those that have been made since the acute attack developed, shows no significant evidence of enlargement...
...flood of questions that followed the report. Snyder and Army Doctor Thomas W. Mattingly took great pains to explain 'the unfamiliar terms. The "abnormalities" on the President's heart were actually normal aftereffects of any heart attack, like the scar tissue that covers a burn. In describing the heart attack as acute after they had always called it moderate, the doctors referred to the suddenness, not the degree, of the thrombosis. The scar itself measured about four-fifths of an inch, and was "average" for the type of attack. While the heart may have increased in size, Snyder...