Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...article appearing in the New England Journal of Medicine. Goldwyn and Dr. Victor W. Sidel. associate in preventive Medicine, said that the humanitarian arguments for use of non-chemical weapons do not take into account their unpredictable after effects...
...most literate persons know by now, Truman Capote's In Cold Blood is a searching and compassionate account of two disturbed young men who brutally murdered a Kansas family, were captured, tried and executed. Capote, who called the book a "nonfiction novel," spent six years on it, from shortly after the murder in 1959 to shortly after their hanging in 1965. He had countless hours with the killers in prison, became their intimate friend, showed them the manuscript of the book. They talked to him so frankly and freely that some readers feel Capote exploited them...
...from a greying British scientist. Astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell, 52, who used the University of Manchester's 250-ft. radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, England, to track the Soviet spaceship Luna 10 on its successful moon mission, jumped at the chance of providing a maneuver-by-maneuver account that enabled the free world to learn of the first lunar or bit before most Russians...
...that aims to set free "prisoners of conscience," no matter how obscure, if they have been locked up for "expressing any honestly held opinion which does not advocate violence." It is dedicated to the proposition that governments that operate outside the law must somehow be brought to account...
Most of the details of Papa's eventual hospitalization at the Mayo Clinic, where he received electroshock treatment, have been told before. But Hotchner gives them a special poignancy. There is, for example, an account of Hotchner's last visit, in June 1961, when Hemingway, suffering from delusions and high blood pressure, complained bitterly: "What does a man care about? Staying healthy. Working good. Eating and drinking with his friends. Enjoying himself in bed. I haven't any of them. Do you understand, goddamn it? None of them!" And so, less than a month later, Papa Hemingway...