Word: ulcers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Ironically, an old. familiar operation has stirred some of the sharpest surgical controversy. In the American Journal of Surgery, Dr. Moore recently inveighed against the various stomach-cutting operations that have been tried as "cures"' for duodenal ulcer. "The removal of a large segment of normal stomach for a disease in the duodenum," he wrote, "is not only crippling, but wanting in elegance of rationale." Dr. Moore, who drives himself hard and ignores any possible effects on his own digestion, insists that the basic cause of ulcers is still unknown. The dazzling variety of stomach operations devised between...
...adventurous surgeons have devised still other ulcer treatments. From the fertile mind of Minnesota's Wangensteen came the idea that chilling the stomach, by running a coolant solution through a swallowed balloon, might stop bleeding from ulcers in the stomach itself. It did. Then with his surgeon son Stephen, Dr. Wangensteen reasoned that actually freezing the stomach wall might cripple the acid-producing cells and thus keep acid from spilling into the duodenum. It does, at least for several months. After that, says Dr. Wangensteen, the procedure can be repeated-though in any but expert hands...
...major mass-producer is Don Clayton, 37, of Fayetteville, N.C. An insurance mortgage broker nine years ago, he built his first course during an ulcer-enforced vacation, added a second within weeks, and took in around $13,000 during his first year of business. Clayton's Putt-Putt Golf Courses Inc. has more than 350 courses going in 36 states (plus Panama, Japan, Okinawa and Canada), and he expects to add 45 more this year. Cost per course is from $6,500 to $44,000, plus the standard $200 franchise fee and a straight 3% of the gross...
...Force experts who felt they had been cruelly treated by the subcommittee's staff. The memo complained that staff interrogators' "oral abuse . . . harsh language . . . threats . . . rapid-fire questions . . . emotional rantings" had so unnerved the doughty men of the Pentagon that one collapsed from "nervous exhaustion and recurring ulcer" and two more came down with "deep fatigue...