Word: comas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Austere old Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar is still unaware that he was replaced 15 months ago while in a deep coma following a stroke-and he may never find out. No one in Portugal has so far been able to summon up the nerve to tell the old man that his 36-year reign is over. The task of preventing Salazar from finding out has fallen chiefly to his housekeeper, Dona Maria de Jesus Caetano Freire, and his physician. They deny him newspapers and television, explaining that such diversions would "tire" him. They schedule meetings with his former Cabinet...
Though the 36-year rule of Portugal's António de Oliveira Salazar ended last year, the old man is not yet aware of it. Still immobilized after a stroke and a coma 13 months ago, Salazar calls Cabinet meetings, and his old ministers faithfully attend-even though some of them are no longer in the Cabinet. No one has found the courage to tell the 80-year-old dictator that he has been replaced...
...last week, came the most detailed report to date. Communist sources there told TIME Bureau Chief Jerrold Schecter that Mao had suffered a stroke on Sept. 2 and was in critical condition; only a massive medical effort was keeping him alive. According to the sources, while Mao alternated between coma and consciousness decision-making in Peking was being handled by a triumvirate: Defense Minister Lin Piao, officially designated by the party last spring as Mao's heir; Premier Chou Enlai; and Ideologue Chen Pota, one of the main figures in the Cultural Revolution. The report hinted that a Chou...
Archer's style is calm verging on coma. He never blows up over a bad shot. He never celebrates a birdie. He does not smoke, drink or swear. Before a match, he is often in bed by 9:30 p.m. "I just try to concentrate on my golf," he says, "and I have enough trouble doing that without worrying about my image." Once, when an onlooker cried "Nice shot, honey!" he muttered, "Thanks, lady," totally unaware that it was his wife Donna. "Maybe," he said, "I should take acting lessons...
...child is not poisoned severely enough to go into a coma, his symptoms may be so vague that they raise no suspicion of lead poisoning. For borderline cases, or for children under suspicion because they live in the same building as a known victim, there are several blood and urine tests, and an ingenious method of detecting lead (by spectrophotometry) in a snippet of their hair...