Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...treating patients with transplants, doctors have been teetering on a precarious seesaw. They must use drugs enough to suppress the immune mechanism and spare the kidney, but not in such strong dosages as to let the patient die from any passing infection. The drugs used, mainly azathioprine (Imuran) and prednisone, are so highly potent that by themselves they can seriously weaken or help to kill a patient. A major factor in boosting the cure rate in the past two years, said Dr. Murray, has been a steady reduction in the dosage of azathioprine. The researchers gathered at Duke were seeking...
...dedicated to "my friends I left across the sea," and concludes with a five-page list of the names and dates of death of the 143 Special Forces soldiers who were killed in Vietnam between April 1961 and last November. "Tell them about us, Sadler, don't let us die in vain," they say in one of his songs...
Novelist Gilbert is a journalist who won't admit it. The contrived, never-say-die plot of The Beautiful Life is simply a device to move his characters through the inner circle. Exclusive restaurants and discotheques, the Plaza, "molto snob" boutiques and hair salons, Parke-Bernet, Sutton Place, a round of Capotesque parties, and assorted Upper East Side bedrooms...
...they were born and have met death at every step of the way. They are burdened by debt, unlucky in their attempts to raise chickens or hogs, which are stolen by the government troops or taken as "taxes" by the Viet Cong if they do not sicken and die first...
...hirelings, a butler (Peter Jaszi) and a murderous Stillman nurse (Erica Ivers). The pair arranges the deaths of the roommate and girl friends, deaths which are duly certified by Stillman doctors and reported in the CRIMSON. In fact, however, through the agency of a potent serum they do not die at all but are transformed into zombies in the Francis Ave. house. I shall reveal no more of the plot which is fun and has its share of suspense...