Word: weights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seldom this side of Plutarch have a great man's earliest moments been recorded in such pluperfect detail. But then, as Rebekah Baines Johnson went on to explain, her first son came from no common clay. Her matriarchal scrapbook saga of Lyndon's life, from birth (weight: 10 Ibs.) in "the rambling old farmhouse of the young Sam Johnsons" on the Pedernales until 1931, when he went to Washington as secretary to Congressman Richard M. Kleberg, was presented to her son four years before her death in 1958. Last week, New York's McGraw-Hill published Rebekah...
...right side,"he said. This time, though, he was content merely to point to the most celebrated scar since Jenkins' Ear.* What's more, allowed Lyndon Johnson, he is unhappy with his strict diet, begun in August (few starches and fats, no liquor) aimed at trimming his weight down to 187 lbs. When he complains about it to Lady Bird, she retorts: "You can't run the country if you can't run yourself...
...aerial photographs of the grave sites. Newsmen promptly asked Detective Superintendent Arthur Benfield whether some kind of black cult could have buried its victims in a magic pattern or symbol, visible only from the air. "I like black magic," Benfield parried, "but they tend to make me put on weight." Black Magic is a well-known brand of English chocolates...
...recommending this "super-surgery as a panacea for the super-obese." To qualify as a candidate for jejuno-colostomy, a patient must be at least 100 lbs. overweight, must have tried and failed with other reducing regimens, and must have some medical problem associated with excess weight-a high blood-cholesterol level, for example, or abnormally high blood pressure...
...most of the ten such cases Dr. Troncelliti has operated on at Norristown and at Bryn Mawr Hospital, the desired loss in weight has been accompanied by a lowering of cholesterol level or blood pressure, or both. A rare advantage of this operation is that it is reversible-if weight loss becomes too great, the jejunum and ileum can be hooked up again in the way that nature intended...