Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hefty Louis Cortese, 31, had worked for Hearst and for Stage magazine. Dark-haired Jack Begon, 35, had run a shortlived Cosmopolis (Wash.) weekly, had done make-up on the San Francisco Chronicle. Lean, Groucho-mustached Bill de Meza, 28, had reported for the Plainfield (NJ.) Courier News...
...Itemized Bill. Authorities estimate that from 4,000,000 to 12,000,000 U.S. citizens are infected with brucellosis germs, that some 40,000 annually become doctors' patients. About 12% of U.S. cattle of breeding age are infected...
...week the society started a widely backed drive to make euthanasia legal. It announced that 1,500 New York doctors and 54 eminent clergymen (among them: Union Theological Seminary's President Henry Sloan Coffin, Riverside Church's Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick) had joined in sponsoring a euthanasia bill which they hope to get introduced in the New York State Legislature...
Ringleader of this aggressive revival of an old argument: Dr. Robert Latou Dickinson, sprightly, 85-year-old president of the society, gynecologist, artist, marriage counselor. He had drawn a bill for "dignified, merciful" killing. Under it, any patient over 21 who found life unbearable could apply to a court for permission to die; if an investigating committee of doctors and laymen approved, his doctor would get authorization to end his life painlessly (e.g., by a narcotic). The bill would do nothing about imbeciles or children born monstrously deformed...
...Roadable planes have been built before. Examples: auto designer Bill Stout's "Skylander"; a roadable autogiro; an "Arrowbile"; a "Roadplane"-all experimental...