Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, was reclassified 4-F, saving him the trouble of keeping his promise not to serve if called; Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali-Cassius Clay, 25, his appeals exhausted, was ordered to report for induction on April 11, and said he'd rather die first...
Alice Toklas became a Roman Catholic, anxiously inquiring of her priest whether "this will allow me to see Gertrude when I die." She lived alone in an apartment in her remaining years, bedridden and arthritic, having daily contact only with her maid Yacinta. At week's end she was buried next to Gertrude in Paris' famed Perè Lachaise Cemetery, where also lie such luminaries as Molière, Proust, Chopin and Delacroix...
...world's most useful drug is aspirin, and it is remarkably safe for most adults. But each year, almost 150 U.S. children die of aspirin poisoning, and more have to be rushed to a hospital to have their stomachs pumped out. For in the young, aspirin dosage is a matter of hair-trigger sensitivity...
...dreary village of Galánta, Hungary, Composer Zoltán Kodály haunted the local railroad station, watching the come-and-go of peasants lustily singing their folk songs. "I would stand open-mouthed," he once recalled, "listening to the music die away as the train bore them off. But even then it always seemed to me that a thread of melody remained trembling in the air." For Kodály, who died last week of a heart attack at 84, those simple melodies became the wellspring of a creative life that enriched the music of Hungary...
...husband, will stand trial on more serious fraud charges because of their Windfall dealings. For all her troubles, the Queen Bee remains grimly defiant. "They can't take my love of mining away from me," she said last week. "I'll have that till the day I die...