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Cheatham has suffered a "study deterioration of his emotional well-being" due to an ulcer and the pressures of his work, Koocher said...
Faisal shuns modern dress for the traditional long cotton lhawb that Arabs wear beneath an abayeh or robe. His meals are bland and include much .boiled rice because of a series of ulcer operations. The King routinely works a 16-hour day, which leaves him little time for a private life. For other Saudis, however, Faisal is slowly relaxing the stark imperatives of Islam. As the King has grown older, his reign by the standards of conservative desert Arabs has become surprisingly benevolent. Although members of the royal family are expected to behave at home, they and other well...
Well aware that his state of Alabama had long liked Nixon, Flowers seemed the most likely Democrat to vote against impeachment. He had developed an ulcer over the problem. Gently, Rodino urged Flowers to seek meetings with the moderate Republicans to see if they might find areas of agreement. The chairman asked the articulate and diplomatic Mann to do the same thing. By Tuesday, private meetings had begun among three Southerners and four uncommitted Republicans: Railsback, Cohen, Butler and Fish. This centrist group stood between the all-out impeachers and the Nixon loyalists...
...rigors of travel also took their toll of his bride Nancy. Last week she entered the Bethesda Naval Medical Center to undergo treatment for an ulcer. * Including Morton Halperin and Anthony Lake, two of his aides on the National Security Council. Their phones were later bugged and both have sued Kissinger, claiming the taps were illegal...
Reality, for Bachelor Hamlisch, is hardly a flamboyant lifestyle. He attends a Conservative synagogue every Friday night, neither smokes nor drinks, and watches his diet carefully-the result of a bleeding ulcer a few years ago. His biggest indulgence is a video tape recorder attached to his television set, on which he replays cassettes of his appearances on talk shows. He even had some dental work done after deciding that one of his front teeth was not photogenic...