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...read abstracts of important papers to be delivered. He, and other medical reporters, also benefited from advance briefings in lay language by key scheduled speakers, and had a chance to cross-question them. And so, from California, Cant cabled four stories-a controversy over freezing the stomach to lessen ulcer pains, the results of a remarkable Red Chinese surgical operation, the use of a pump to relieve a diseased heart, and a bowel operation to lower the blood's content of cholesterol. These stories, edited and checked in New York, are on top of the week's medical...
After a four-month, $4,000,000 sojourn in Vienna for treatment of a duodenal ulcer, Saudi Arabia's King Saud, 61, returned to his desert capital of Riyadh last week. At the airport he received full honors and an embrace from his half-brother and heir, Crown Prince Feisal. But it was hardly a triumphal homecoming, for Saud is now no more than a figurehead ruler...
...only to the Los Angeles Times. Said one former editor: "The paper was the only thing in her life-along with unyielding loyalty to friends-that she really cared about." An Editor to the End. When Alicia entered Doctors Hospital in Manhattan last month with a bleeding ulcer, she ignored doctors' protests, ran the paper from her bed, ordering stories, discussing projects, arguing with editors by phone. By taking it easy and following a strict diet, she could have cured her ulcer without an operation. "But she wanted the surgery," said Newsday Editorial Director Bill Woestendiek. "She said...
...Herbert Hoover, 88, condition serious, "due to anemia secondary to bleeding from the gastrointestinal tract," at home in his Waldorf-Astoria apartment; G. Frederick Reinhardt, 51, U.S. Ambassador to Italy, hospitalized in Rome with an ulcer and low blood pressure; Republican Clarence J. Brown, 67, Ohio's senior Congressman, suffering "a severe back strain," abed at Bethesda Naval Hospital; Queen Ingrid of Denmark, 53, with mild stomach ulcers, abandoning all engagements in favor of rest and diet, at her summer residence, Fredensborg Castle...
...flights home suddenly found their passages had been canceled. Instead, the airliners flew to Riyadh, picked up the ailing King and his huge retinue, and carried them off to Vienna. At week's end King Saud was reportedly in an oxygen tent, responding to treatment for a duodenal ulcer. Doctors predicted recovery within a few weeks, but rumors still filtered through Vienna that Saud was in fact quite ill. Should Saud die, Prince Feisal will become King in name as well as in fact...