Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...QUICK AND THE DEAD, by Thomas Wiseman. Wiseman's novel about the friendship between a half-Jew and a Nazi, before and during World War II in Vienna, is a brilliant psychological study of how two very different men can become so fatally entwined that each determines the course of the other's life...
...Francisco, tens of thousands of demonstrators paraded to protest the Viet Nam conflict, which now ranks as the fourth costliest war in U.S. history in terms of lives. As of the week ending March 29, combat deaths totaled 33,641, surpassing the Korean War total by 12. Of these dead, 10,000 have fallen since the Paris peace talks began. These grim figures provided an added spur for the peace marchers. With banners demanding BRING THE TROOPS HOME and END THE WAR, they swept down broad avenues, through thick Easter crowds, in Chicago and Atlanta, Seattle and Los Angeles...
...hired Memphis Attorney Richard J. Ryan to seek to overturn the 99-year sentence Ray accepted last month in return for a guilty plea. Judge W. Preston Battle, 60, the tough jurist who sentenced Ray, was found dead of a heart attack last week. Judge Arthur Faquin, appointed to take charge of Ray's case, must now rule whether a letter found among Battle's files constitutes a valid petition by Ray for a new trial...
...table at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital was Haskell Karp, 47, a printing estimator from Skokie,III., his heart drastically damaged by coronary-artery disease. Karp had had an implanted pacemaker for eleven months, but it was failing. Cooley first tried to save him by cutting out the dead area of heart muscle and stitching the sides of the hole together with a piece of Dacron for reinforcement. But when this was done, Karp's heart refused to beat spontaneously. Karp had been linked during the operation to a heart-lung machine, both breathing for him and pumping...
...eulogies. "I remember a time," he says, "when if you didn't speak for 30 minutes, it meant you didn't care for the deceased." Episcopal Canon Howard Johnson of Alhambra, Calif., insists that caskets should be closed-"not because we are afraid to look at a dead body, but to save the cost of cosmetology...