Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extending education and social security. It also expressed the hope that once free, the Congo would keep ties with Belgium, like those that President de Gaulle has asked for from France's former colonies. "Our firm resolution now," said the King, "is to lead the Congolese people, without fatal delays and without rash haste, onward to independence...
Finding a Vein. For them there is a continuous struggle for survival after the first few months, during which, like Marclan, most victims show no symptoms. No cure is known. Untreated, the disease is often fatal within ten years; even with the best of care, in severe cases survival beyond 30 is rare. Last week, on the campus of integrated Marshall College in Huntington. W. Va., Marclan Walker was a focus of interest not only because she was going on 22, but because she had told her story in detail in Ebony. It was a story of living from crisis...
...venturing forth again into a new element. From the bottom of the air ocean where he has lived so long, the emptiness overhead looks almost impossibly hostile. Its vacuum kills a soft-bodied human in a few seconds; its radiation and heat and cold are almost as quickly fatal. But man has his daring and his intelligence. His body will not have to change. He can take with him into space an artificial environment that simulates the familiar bottom of the atmosphere...
...considered deadly. Nine hours after the accident, Kelley became coherent enough to explain that he mistook the blue flash for a short circuit in the stirrer switch. A day later he died. Dr. Thomas Shipman, head of the laboratory's health division, said that the radiation had done fatal damage to his central nervous system...
...third fatal radiation accident at Los Alamos, and the only one since 1946. Considering the laboratory's job (designing and making nuclear explosives), Dr. Shipman considers the record "fabulously good." People should get over the exaggerated fear of radiation, he insists. "We're going to have to live with it a long time-more and more as time goes on. It should not be invested with such an aura of mystery. You're just as dead if you get hit by a taxi...