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Died. William Redfield, 49, veteran TV, stage and screen actor whose estimated 2,000 performances included playing Harding in the Academy Award-winning film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; of a respiratory ailment complicated by leukemia; in Manhattan. The son of a music arranger and a Ziegfeld Follies chorus girl, Redfield played ten roles on Broadway before he was 20. He later wrote about the theater -Letters From an Actor (1967)-and with Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan helped found the Actors Studio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 30, 1976 | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

...devastating earthquakes in China, the Colorado flood, the mysterious ailment that struck the American Legionnaires in Philadelphia-all suggest a more fundamental, and realistic, perspective. It would be banal to say that such demonstrations of nature's awesome force restore man's humility. Still, it is worth repeating the thesis of French Biologist Jacques Monod that events -and mostly the event of life itself-are profoundly random...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: The Earth Alive | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

Eager to please, Mondale not only supplied Carter with copies of his income tax returns for the past five years but also a report from his doctor describing his only ailment-a minor case of hypertension. (Carter referred the report to Kirbo's personal physician, who agreed that it did not indicate a serious problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Straightest Arrow | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

...hardcover; $5.95, paperback), "even the most elaborate checkups ... do not detect early and treatable diseases with any regularity." Dr. Russell Roth, a longtime Erie, Pa., urologist and former A.M.A. president, concurs. In 35 years of routine rectal examinations, he reports, he has discovered in only one patient an ailment that lent itself to treatment. Even if diseases could be easily detected in checkups, adds Dr. William Keith Morgan of West Virginia University's School of Medicine, "patients are probably better off not knowing they are going to die of Huntington's chorea or multiple sclerosis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Annual Rip-Off? | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

...tried to end his life-and his agony -was not immediately clear. Richard Phillips, Hays' family physician and friend, had prescribed Dalmane, a standard "hypnotic agent" or soporific, because the besieged Congressman was understandably tense. Hays also had been eating little and was suffering from diverticulitis, an intestinal ailment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: What Liz Ray Has Wrought | 6/21/1976 | See Source »

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