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CALIFORNIA. Gray-haired and raspy-voiced from a successful operation for throat cancer, oldtime Hoofer George Murphy, 68, is trying to dance out of the way of a strong challenge to his bid for a second Senate term by a Democrat named Tunney. If the Tunney were Gene, a contemporary, Murphy could worry less. But it is John. 36-year-old son of the former heavyweight champion, a three-term Congressman who looks, talks and acts like a somehow unaccounted-for Kennedy brother...
...predict anything, much less a political election, in the land of Reagans and Mansons, yet Tunney must be given the edge. He is running a strong campaign against the 68-year-old Murphy, whose campaigning is hampered by his voice problem (he has had several major operations on his throat and is only barely audible...
...doctor employed by the Niarchos shipyards. When the doctor arrived from Athens by helicopter, it was 2 a.m. Half an hour later, Eugenie, 44, died. The doctor refused to sign a death certificate because death was not from natural causes. The police, who noted bruises on Eugenie's throat and abdomen, ordered an inquiry...
Earlier that day, Brandt, who constantly puffs on cigarillos, had complained that his throat was hoarse. When he asked his hosts for a throat lozenge, they reassured him that they would find a better cure. When he returned to the Lenin Hills residence that night, three Soviet women physicians were waiting for him. They examined his throat, nose and ears, and listened to his heartbeat and breathing. Then they prescribed a mixture of hot milk and soda water for his scratchy throat. "It's a drink not normally on my list," said Brandt, whose favorite medicine is brandy...
Through eleven volumes he has been clearing his throat for a revelation that has never quite come. At the crucial moment, he always ducks into another subplot. Sometimes he seems to keep subplots handy to that purpose. On other occasions he answers his most basic questions with another question, rhetorically: "Did any of us know how policies were really made, in particular the persons who believed they made them...