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Page 6 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1978 Music award winners named United Press International SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Stevie Wonder, Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn, and the group Fleetwood Mac were double winners in the “American Music Awards” Monday night. Wonder was named top male soul singer and his “Songs in the Key of Life” was picked as best soul music album. Twitty was picked the best male country singer and shared with Loretta Lynn the top country group award. Fleetwood Mac was named top pop group and their “Rumors” was picked favorite pop album. Lynn took the top female country singer award in addition to sharing the duo award with Twitty. Headache ‘cure’ better than aspirin United Press International INDIANAPOLIS — John C. Shook put the .38-caliber revolver to his temple and pulled the trigger. He was trying to get rid of a headache. But the gun didn’t fire. “I left two chambers empty, just for safety, because of the kids, ” he said. “I forgot that at the time. “When I realized I had survived a minute or two longer with the pain, I waited and the darned thing started backing down. Shook, 33, an Indianapolis elec trician, managed to hold on until morning, then called for an ap pointment with a Chicago clinic which specializes in cluster headaches. Dr. Seymour Diamond, a neurologist who heads the clinic, calls them “man’s most terrible pain.” The pain is on one side of the head, boring outward through one eye, while the nose runs. It makes strong men weep, writhe, roll, yell, pace, punch and bang their heads on walls, according to researchers. There is disagreement about cause and treatment of cluster headaches. Diamond said, but they are associated with blood vessel functions and apparently not with the nervous system. Shook, who began suffering the headaches seven years ago, got them year-round, often several times in the same day. “The last few years, I’ve had one or two a week and then clusters of them, two or three a day or at night, he said. “The pain levels are unbelievable. I didn’t know how bad they were until the last few months.” Shook heard of the Chicago clinic two years ago, but when his wife, Pat, called, she was told no appoint ments were open for several months. “We dropped it. I wished to God we hadn’t. I might never have reached this kind of torment. ” Shook said the headaches cost him money and jobs. They took him to about 30 doctors and brought ac cusations he was pretending in order to obtain narcotics. “I don’t have trouble getting a job or keeping a job, but on a couple they let me go because I missed so much work. “And when you're taking nine or 10 Darvons painkilling pills in an evening, you can’t work the next day. I’ve never met anyone or any thing that ran me up against a stone wall like this did.” Now Shook is off the pills and ju- I0US1 pig VI j fcreatn bilant. But there’s no gJr^ 1 he’ll be permanently spJr ^ headaches. Eiistr Victims not knowing »|. r or t turn have had their mnli». c0 ^, tracted, gone abroad seel(i^B^’ s ( ment and submitted tous d*j ess surgery. Diamond said.’ ^ t h e The majority of cluster viJ c0( j men — typically harddM 1 -- yj hard-smoking and since alcoB’^g bring on the headachesj- or hard-drinking men. Often 0 f th women-dependent, FettinMgj sn wives take over numerousti^ wor( J Migraine responds to Diamond said, while clusteilL often come during sleep oiK’ re ci don. Eyre Treatment involves painB^g r drugs and sometimes a pE mus called histamine desensitizaj; Lp Histamine is a body i [lied a which some physicians ass lj t cut , with the onset of the attacl |jj en ts t receiving it in increasing!Egh t some victims seem' to bei [betti headaches for long periods. L e j er Shook was so glad for relied pposi a newspaper want ad wlr L, b ac simply, “Cluster Headaches'E’ s w( gave his phone number. ^ggn “The only reason I ran the jj n g ba to tell people about Diar i,ercei clinic, so they wouldn’t gn L nt and blow their head off liteEheeli about to do. | e iy i If You’re Tired of KINGS, MACS, & JACKS. Ride the 109 Boyett 846-8223 Next to Campus Theater SUBMARINE SANDWICHES 2JX^J^j fL 2^4j[L^subs for your next" BfcdSfcfeea* EAST rbi STREET „ ^REHOUSE 3715 EAST 2^th STREET (715)8*H®“677I TOW* ? COUNTRY CENTER i 54 i | was pi rec i Labi Also p I of to esser, rtenfia nefite s, asy bert' c VISYf OS. tAoNOAV -fU&O SKTOO-UAV |Q Ml— t<3sTvM y&4b-]prTr~\ ter ffHEE msii r drico) | Si [decorliiva, ird S' ^ FlSt> US - follou) UNI\J€R5lT/d^ue4-o ^f€t>-|viAftT-TuRr4 (RlG,4T ov (v*x> foliou K, rr until th£ U6HT. L)8'££ LXAT£D Ccofi-Tai CBKn&Z, oi4 1 705t fVFTER THE font ii ! ANDLES oils !'Vi i t &