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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1978
Music award
winners named
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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
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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-
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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
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to tell people about Diar i,ercei
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