Word: sinusitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that bring him in continuing fees, known in the trade as "residuals," he makes about $300,000 a year. He can imitate anything from the cry of a loon to the whining drawl of a mountaineer, run effortlessly through all the categories of voice quality-rasp, strain, fog, nasal, sinus. He can shift ground from tight-lipped British to loose-lipped Brooklynese to American rural, and run analytically through the ages of man, making his voice grow older as he progresses from the breathiness of childhood to the cracking articulations of the elderly...
Shortly after the Indians invaded Goa three months ago, Jacqueline Kennedy postponed a scheduled trip to India; the illness of Father-in-Law Joseph P. Kennedy was her ostensible reason. Last week, Jackie's sinuses were acting up. Her condition, reported Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, made it necessary to postpone her scheduled departure for India until this week-and to reduce her visit from 22 days to 14. There was no lack of speculation in Washington and New Delhi that Jackie's sinus condition was a sensitive diplomatic barometer, affected by John Kennedy's pique...
...research after graduating from Louisiana State University, later was project engineer for an experimental program for the X-1 (the first airplane to break the sound barrier) and directed the research program for the more advanced X-15. He took charge of the shoot last week despite a severe sinus infection, analyzed reports from 20 experts on every phase of the preparations through the long, tense hours before the firing. Last week his vital decision to leave Glenn's retrorockets attached to the space capsule until it re-entered the atmosphere left Williams still shaken three hours later...
Hearing of Rowan's turndown, U.S. Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith, undergoing treatment for sinus at the U.S. Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Md., promptly phoned the White House, then sent a letter of resignation to the club; Galbraith thereby voided the application of President John Kennedy, whom he had sponsored. Also quitting were Swing, Civil War Historian Bruce Catton, Assistant Secretary of State Harlan Cleveland, Author James P. Warburg and ABC News Analyst Howard K. Smith...
Died. Samuel Briskin, 70, strongwilled, Russian-born philanthropist who recovered from a sinus condition that nearly killed him, founded the Revere Camera Co. (home movie cameras and projectors) in 1937, was board chairman until 1960; of cancer; in Chicago...