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...Malcolm Tweed, 59, a casketmaker from Chula Vista, Calif., visited a general practioner in 1972, complaining about a pain in his right shoulder. The doctor diagnosed his problem as arthritis, ignored a suggestion by a consulting radiologist that "a tumor must also be considered," and gave him 41 costly shots of a steroid drug over a three-month period. As the pain in his shoulder intensified, Tweed consulted an orthopedic surgeon, who X-rayed him and misdiagnosed the problem. Eight months later, an associate of the orthopedic surgeon happened to see Tweed's X rays and identified the illness...
...Boss" Tweed, corrupt Tammany chief of the 1860s, raised little objection when muckraking reporters prowled city hall. What the papers wrote had no meaning, Tweed liked to boast; his constituency was illiterate. The only criticism that ever bothered or threatened him, the Boss confessed, was "them damn pictures...
Thomas Nast's editorial cartoons were worth fearing; the savage caricatures showed Tweed variously as a vulture, a bag of money and, when Nast had sufficiently aroused the civic conscience, a felon in prison stripes...
...time wore on, however, attention vacillated between the activity at the podium and the mau-mauing on the floor. Warren Beatty, in a designer brown tweed suit and sculptured haircut, caused quite a stir among delegates and press alike as he stood in the aisles near the California delegation signing autographs and talking with presidential hopefuls, not-so-hopefuls, and celebrities like Jesse Jackson. George Take, who played Zulu in "Star Trek," got his fair share of ogling, as did Mrs. Lorne Greene...
...moved permanently to Southern California, where he joined another deadly, though higher-paying hustle. Between novels and essays he wrote film scripts (among others for Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre). Finally there was Huxley the culture-explosion sage of the '50s and early '60s. Often in mousy tweed and what looked like a snakeskin tie, he toured campuses and symposia, discoursing in silvery tones on coming ecological di sasters, overpopulation, Shakespeare and the way of the Buddha...