Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ROCHESTER, Minn.--Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmum '29 best known for the landmark 1973 ruling legalizing abortion, is undergoing treatment for prostate cancer at the Mayo Clinic a clinic spokesman said yesterday...
Were it not for Dukakis' place at the front rank of Democratic presidential contenders, the story Mrs. Dukakis told at the dedication of a drug-treatment center in Norfolk, Mass., would be sadly ordinary. Her problem began when, as a 19-year-old in 1956, she obtained a prescription for diet pills to control her weight. (At 5 ft. 6 in., she then weighed about 130 lbs.; she now weighs 120 lbs.) Years of deceit followed as she began each morning with a small 5-mg dose of amphetamines. In hindsight, she concedes that the drug "contributed to my being...
...bravery should not be minimized, nor should the extent of her former drug problem be exaggerated. Medical experts say the amount of amphetamines she was taking probably caused only psychological dependency. Dr. Jack Blaine, the chief of treatment research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, says, "Giving this up is more than giving up one's morning coffee and less than giving up cigarettes." Kitty Dukakis might agree. She still smokes a pack...
...Oskar Matzerath, the hunchbacked, stunted hero of The Tin Drum. Having asked for and received a pet rat as a Christmas present, the speaker begins suffering nightmares in which he must endure diatribes by "the She-rat of my dreams." She complains of, among many other things, the beastly treatment the rat has had to suffer at the hands of humans, dating all the way back to its exclusion from Noah's ark. She also reveals that people have finally succeeded in destroying themselves and their civilizations, and that rats are the inheritors of the devastation left behind. She acknowledges...
...civilian American pilot, was turned over to a U.S. congressional delegation visiting Angola last week after he spent nearly ten weeks in captivity. Longo's Beechcraft Bonanza was forced down by an Angolan jet fighter last April over Namibia, where the plane was scheduled to be delivered. "The treatment got better as time went on," Longo said of his detention. When he arrived in the U.S., however, Longo cited "bad food, lice and lizards" as hardships that he endured...