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January 7: It has become dinner conversation. I turn around to the people at the table behind me and tell them that their constant use of the word terminal is turning my stomach. The one who has been doing all the talking turns to me and stares. He has black half-moons under his eyes that make him look like a high school football player. "It makes me sick too," he says, "I was just on for 14 hours straight." I look closer and realize his face is as puffy as a marshmallow; I assume that the machine has just...
CHAPTERS OF The Devil's Alternative end with a short sentence in a haunting passive voice. "Lunches were ill-digested," goes one, and your's may not sit quietly in the stomach either after finishing Frederick Forsyth's latest and alarmingly timely new novel...
...Lackland Air Force Base near San Antonio raised hopes that the hostage situation might now be resolved. Earlier in the week, that seemed a remote possibility. The Shah's health had taken a turn for the worse. Aides reported to Washington that he had been sick to his stomach and was running a fever. At Carter's request, Drs. Benjamin Kean and Hibbard Williams, who had treated the Shah in New York City, flew to Lackland to examine him. They prescribed undisclosed therapy for his enlarged spleen but concluded there was no medical problem that would prevent...
...campaign left her exhausted. At a victory party, she clutched a ginger ale and complained: "I've got a stomach- ache." She faces some daunting problems: the need for cuts to make up a projected deficit of $117 million and balance the budget, as required by law. But her four-year term will begin with a honeymoon -literally. In January, she will marry Investment Banker Richard Blum, who has been her unofficial political adviser for the past year...
...three. Holding court at a White House reception last week honoring the performing arts, she recalled the first time she and Dorothy were invited to the presidential mansion. It was for a special showing of their movie, Orphans of the Storm, and "my sister had a knot in her stomach from the excitement. But since both we and the President were from Ohio, everything went just fine." The President was Warren Harding, the year...