Medicine: Unquestionably Superior

"President Kennedy, a man who has suffered both illness and serious injury, enters the White House in the knowledge that his health is excellent and his medical future bright." Thus last week reported the American Medical Association magazine, Today's Health, in a detailed medical history of the incoming President.

Kennedy's 1960 chart shows a couple of colds, a touch of laryngitis and a short-lived bout with sinusitis. At 43, he is a trim, tanned 6 ft., although a recent gain of 10 Ibs. (to 175) showed in his plump cheeks. His blood pressure is...

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