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Even seated at his littered desk in Canberra's Parliament House, he always seemed bigger than life. His great black eyebrows clumped out angrily, like saltbush in the Great Sandy Desert, and his vast stomach bulged defiance against his double-breasted suit. He was quarrelsome, autocratic, always demanding, and the greatest orator his country has yet produced. He founded the Liberal Party that swept him to power, forged the government coalition that kept him there for 16 years. Prime Minister Sir Robert Gordon Menzies not only governed Australia. He overpowered...
...Florida's Senator George Smathers, 52, secretary of the Senate Democratic Conference and the second-ranking Democratic member of the Finance Committee, announced that he will retire after his third term expires in January 1969, because of ill health. Smathers has been suffering from a stomach ulcer and a kidney ailment, but declines to specify the illness that is ending his congressional career. Before entering Georgetown University Hospital last week for tests, he described his condition as "serious, complex but not incurable...
...after a battle that went all the way to the Supreme Court, finally forced NBC to sell one of its two chains of radio stations (the Blue Network, now ABC), thus ending what he called CBS's and NBC's "duopoly" of the industry; of stomach cancer; in Daytona Beach...
...sadistic samurai but a small, brown man whose boyish features and emaciated body made him look less like the oppressor than the oppressed. The U.S. was not even formally at war with him. Nor at first could Americans be sure that divided, ravaged South Viet Nam had the stomach or stability to sustain the struggle into which it had drawn its ally...
...back, she may be left with nothing but a snorkel above the waist. As for the navel, Blass has taken inspiration from Mondrian to produce a white bikini banded in black and joined top to bottom by a single black band that covers the navel yet somehow makes the stomach seem even barer...