Word: ulcer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After retiring two years ago as political columnist for the New York Times, Arthur Krock, 82, found himself, well-not quite the center of attention as before. Then, while recovering from an ulcer attack last winter, he began to rap out a volume about his experiences on the Washington scene. Memoirs: Sixty Years on the Firing Line quickly became a bestseller. "Suddenly, I'm a celebrity again," says Krock happily. He can hardly keep up with all the speeches and TV appearances that he's been offered. What's more, he says, "I am thinking of doing...
...After he retired in 1965, he shifted to teaching, and the ghetto schools of San Francisco, he found, were just too rough. Larosa's students broke into fistfights almost daily, hurled paper clips, and hit him on the head with chalk and textbooks. Soon he had a bleeding ulcer and, on his doctor's advice, quit teaching. Last month, in a landmark ruling affecting a teacher, a California Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board decided that Larosa had "sustained injury arising out of his employment." His award: medical costs and $70 a week...
...Nixon team reports in the Lancet that of 59 patients treated, one died from perforation of a peptic ulcer. After their treatment, eight more died, but most of these had complicating diseases or injuries...
Their womenfolk walk the cove trails without fear of rape, though perhaps not immune to seduction at early ages, and they don't depend on LSD or pot to send them. You hardly ever hear of an ulcer or a nervous breakdown in the hills. The only air pollution problem is the smell of wood smoke on a frosty day. I don't believe I've heard a word about draft dodging or antiwar demonstrations in the mountains. Honor, manhood and pride mean a lot to the hill people. They are living in the coves...
...says no. Tommy says yes. Dickie sighs. CBS says bad taste. Tommy, popping another ulcer pill into his mouth, says O.K., we quit. Dickie yawns elaborately. CBS says O.K., O.K., you can say, "Good night all you draft dodgers in Canada. We'll probably be seeing you next November," but no fair using that line "Go fa la la yourself...