Word: emphysema
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DIED. Robert George Grosvenor, 68, fifth Duke of Westminster and patriarch of a family whose wealth probably ranks second in Great Britain only to the Queen's; of emphysema; at Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. A descendant of William the Conqueror, Grosvenor served in the Royal Artillery during World War II and in the House of Commons from 1955 to 1964 before inheriting the dukedom from his older brother in 1967. Nine years later he passed along to his son Gerald...
Leonid Brezhnev, 71, is patently not a well man; according to Western intelligence experts, his various ailments may include gout, leukemia, emphysema and a heart condition. But whatever the current status of his health, the Soviet Union's President and party chief last week demonstrated that he is still firmly in control at the Kremlin. In a shuffle of top-level Communist Party jobs, he elevated one of his staunches! allies to the 13-member ruling Politburo, gave the boot to a prominent nonloyalist and further consolidated his hold on the country's decision-making apparatus...
...said a diplomat in Bonn, where Leonid Brezhnev arrived last week on his first trip to the West in nearly a year. It is no secret that the Soviet boss, now 71, has a long history of medical problems, which Western intelligence agencies believe may include gout, leukemia, emphysema and a heart condition that requires him to have a pacemaker. Still, the health precautions that were taken for his four-day stay were startling...
DIED. Edward Griffith Begle, 63, mathematics professor at Yale and Stanford who was a chief proponent of the "new math"; of emphysema; in Palo Alto, Calif. As head of the School Mathematics Study Group, an organization with nearly $10 million in Government grants, Begle emphasized the theoretical principles of the number system in addition to rote calculation learned in traditional math...
DIED. John Franklin Wharton, 83, lawyer, author (Life Among the Playwrights) and inventive behind-the-scenes presence on Broadway; of emphysema; in Manhattan. As a member and founder of the prestigious law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, Wharton had a variety of businesses for clients. His longtime love of the theater and entrepreneurial genius made him an imaginative adviser and friend of producers, playwrights and songwriters. In 1938 he helped form the Playwrights Producing Co., which gave its member-writers (Maxwell Anderson, Robert E. Sherwood and others) control over their own works through bypassing producers. More recently Wharton...