Word: emphysema
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Richard Rovere, 64, astute political reporter and author who for 30 years wrote the Washington Letter for The New Yorker; of emphysema; in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. The New Jersey-born son of an electrical engineer, Rovere graduated from Columbia and worked as an editor at the Nation before joining The New Yorker in 1944. A liberal who had once flirted with Communism, Rovere was noted for his fairness, his objectivity and his ability to place politics in perspective...
...frolicked across the funny pages lampooning the foibles of the high and mighty and mouthing the pungent politics of their raspy-voiced creator, Al Capp. He called his hillbilly vaudeville Li'l Abner, and it made him a wealthy man, though not an especially happy one. Racked by emphysema and distressed by the social changes he saw around him, Capp abruptly retired in 1977. He took up a reclusive life in Cambridge, Mass., where he died last week...
More than that, in midweek a rumor flashed round the world: Brezhnev was dying or, indeed, was already dead. As had occurred half a dozen times in the past five years, the story spread that the Soviet leader had succumbed to one of his many ailments, which allegedly include emphysema, cancer of the jaw, heart disease, gout and leukemia. Kremlinologists pointed out that Brezhnev had not been seen in public since his return to Moscow two weeks ago from a state visit to East Germany. There observers had been shocked by the Soviet leader's shuffling walk, slurred speech...
...recent years Brezhnev has been reported to suffer from heart disease, emphysema, gout and cancer of the jaw. He is said to have had three to seven heart attacks...
DIED. George Brent, 75, Irish-born film heartthrob of the '30s and '40s best remembered as the surgeon who loves but cannot save Bette Davis in the classic 1939 tearjerker Dark Victory; of emphysema; in Solana Beach, Calif...