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Died. General Manuel Arturo Odría, 77, President of Peru from 1950 to 1956; of a heart ailment; in Lima. Although he encouraged economic growth, Odría used strong-arm rather than constitutional techniques. Upon seizing control of the government in 1948, he ruled for two years as head of a military junta, was then elected to the presidency...
Other cases needed a persistence that would do credit to Lieut. Columbo. In 1971 CDC officers interviewed a total of 387 people afflicted with an intestinal ailment; they finally traced the problem to cheese imported from a single French producer. Equally dogged investigation uncovered the source of an outbreak of intestinal illness in Sioux City, Iowa. After learning that all 250 people affected had eaten at one restaurant, CDC officers continued questioning until they discovered that all had ordered some kind of sliced meat. Further investigation led them to a meat slicer that was contaminated with salmonella, a particularly virulent...
...development of the Navy's first atomic-powered submarines and who was largely responsible for the building of the first civilian nuclear power plant; and Commander Eleonor A. Bednowicz, 43, a Navy nurse who met Rickover several months ago when he was a patient for a respiratory ailment at the Bethesda Naval Hospital; he for the second time, she for the first; on Jan. 19; near Chicago...
Died. Walden Robert Cassoto, 37, the crooner known as Bobby Darin, who at 22 became a rock-'n'-roll star with Splish Splash, won a larger audience with his driving version of Kurt Weill's Mack the Knife; following open-heart surgery for a longtime heart ailment; in Los Angeles. A confessed student of the Sinatra style, Darin characteristically loosened his tie and snapped his fingers even when singing somber songs. In 1960 he married Sandra Dee, but by the middle of the decade both his marriage and his career were turning sour. A divorce...
...this case. I feel the remedy is worse than the ailment, certainly at this point in history. What we need is teamwork, not vindictive divisiveness...