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...Americans a year who develop cancer of the voice box, or larynx. To remove the cancerous tissue, surgeons perform an operation called a laryngectomy on many of these patients. Because the surgery disrupts the windpipe, the surgeon must create a small hole in the throat for breathing. But talking is another matter. Some people can learn to gulp air through the mouth, force it down the esophagus, or gullet, instead of the windpipe, and literally burp it back up into a cavity called the pharynx, where a rough facsimile of the natural voice is produced. But like all too many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Speaking Again | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...track, Gordon's band, the Wildcats, lays down a tight boogie rhythm and Gordon wails the praises of a lively nightclub on the edge of town. No one has heard the likes of his squeal in the choruses since Buddy Holly crooned "Peggy Sue" at the top of his throat...

Author: By Bromide Kush, | Title: Rock and Roll Neanderthal | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

Even the deftest of writers might be excused for a little nervous clearing of the throat, perspiration on the palms and other involuntary manifestations of the trembles at the assignment: a cover story on Russell Baker, the humor columnist who writes so deftly himself that he won this year's Pulitzer Prize for commentary. But Contributor John Skow did not flinch. Says Skow: "I've followed Baker's column since he started it 17 years ago. You can tell merely by reading him that he's a very approachable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 4, 1979 | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

Says Dr. Noel Thompson of Stanford University and the Palo Alto Medical Clinic in California: "The doctor who does something to the patient?sticks something down his throat or up the other end of his anatomy, cuts him open or takes his picture?receives a much larger amount of money." A fierce dispute rages over how much unnecessary surgery is performed on Americans each year. Though the precise figure is impossible to pin down, no one doubts that at least some doctors will operate on patients who could get by without surgery simply because the Government or a private insurer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Cost: What Limit? | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

Loeb called Reagan a poor campaigner because he is "so damn nice he won't go for the throat like other candidates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Badillo Attacks Social Beliefs; Loeb Applauds Supreme Court | 5/2/1979 | See Source »

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