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...Budelis, Parker, Munyon, and company, on many sore points between their group and the radicals, they are guilty merely of clever politicking. But White's appointment and the Elder myth that served as a bludgeon prior to Feintuch's muzzling constitute something more...
WHEN presidential aspirant Eugene J. McCarthy mentioned the "Johnson pledge card" in a New Hampshire speech Tuesday, his taciturn audience broke into loud applause. A sore point among Granite State Democrats, the pledge card is generating the kind of bitterness on which, as one McCarthy official put it, "an entire campaign can be built...
Then Blaiberg hit some snags. When he developed a sore throat, his doctors were relieved to find no evidence of bacterial infection. They decided that a virus was to blame and prescribed a simple gargle. Next, too much fluid accumulated in the sac around Blaiberg's new heart, as may happen after cardiac surgery of any type. This necessitated puncturing the sac to drain it. After that, Blaiberg said he felt much better, and the doctors felt confident enough to reduce his already moderate doses of immunosuppressive drugs...
...reviews of Joyce's notes do not quote more than 200 words of text. (The usual request: not more than 500 words without special permission.) As Joyce's manuscript runs to only 3,000 words, the request seems not only reasonable but prudent. Sample: "The heart is sore and sad. Crossed in love?" This is followed by a blank quarter-page, then: "Long lewdly leering lips; dark-blooded molluscs." (Joyce appears, quite properly, to have clammed up at this bluepoint...
...students at one school were absent. Still, U.S. health officials refused to blame the wave of illness specifically on Asian flu. Weeks of lab testing are necessary before flu viruses can be isolated and identified. And the symptoms of Asian flu-three to four days of fever, coughing, sore throat, aches and pains-are also indicative of any number of respiratory infections...