Word: tremors
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...that Manhattan's Dr. Irving S. Cooper showed to the American Medical Association last week were heartrending even to medical men familiar with the ravages of disease. There were pictures of adult victims of Parkinson's disease, or "shaking palsy"-men who could not stay the agitated tremor of their rigid, half-clenched hands, or could not walk except in jerky petits pas. There were children suffering from nerve disorders similar to Parkinsonism. During an attack, a pretty girl of eleven was doubled up, her whole body distorted and shaking. A boy the same age was bent backwards...
Died. Charles Louis ("Clem") McCarthy, 79, the U.S.'s best-known horse-race announcer, an Irish horse auctioneer's son who, though thwarted at becoming a jockey, made the nation thrill to the turf's most exciting moments by the gravel tremor of his voice, particularly his annual (1928-50) calling of the Kentucky Derby; of a stroke; in Manhattan. Only once did Clem err, swapping first-and second-place finishers in the 1947 Preakness because they wore look-alike silks. Not the man to flinch, he rasped: "Ladies and gentlemen, I have made a horrible mistake...
...ante up for a big dinner party given by Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg last January for Lyndon Johnson. Holleman admitted it, but said that he had not consulted Goldberg in advance. Goldberg offered to produce canceled checks to prove that he had paid the bills himself, and the tremor passed away...
...morning last week, a minor earthquake rattled Tokyo windowpanes. But the event caused hardly a tremor among the 10,000,000 inhabitants of the world's most populous city. They had already been shaken to near numbness by the presence of U.S. Attorney General Robert Francis Kennedy, 36, brother and most trusted adviser of President John Kennedy, an emerging force in U.S. foreign affairs-and an earthquaker in his own right...
...This is Mississippi, the middle of the iceberg. Hollis is leading off with his tenor, 'Michael, row the boat ashore, Alleluia, Christian brothers don't be slow, Alleluia; Mississippi's next to go Alleluia.' This is a tremor in the middle of the iceberg--from a stone that the builders rejected...