Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jazz, which every few years is pronounced dead and then somehow revives, has really begun to develop fatal symptoms lately. Its traditional styles are suffering from hardening of the arteries, its avant-garde is in the grip of a frenzied obscurity, and its fever chart at the box office is down, down, down. But now, just as the mourning is starting in earnest, jazz is getting a vital transfusion from the people who seemed to be helping to dig its grave-the rock 'n' rollers...
...AEROSPACE. At recently merged McDonnell Douglas Corp., an after-tax loss of $41 million for Douglas wiped out a $28 million profit for McDonnell. North American Aviation, hit by adverse readjustment of its space contracts, including the Apollo project, following the fatal fire at Cape Kennedy, reported a 59% drop in earnings for the quarter...
...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Roddy McDowall plays a blackmailer in "The Fatal Mistake." His victim, Arthur Hill, raises reptiles; desperation drives him and his pets to strike. Repeat...
...immediate cause of the Bonn confrontation was the fatal shooting of Student Benno Ohnesorg, 26, during the anti-Shah rioting. His death by a police bullet has elevated him to martyrdom; the New Left now talks of him the way angry West Germans talked of Peter Fechter, who was killed by East German border guards at the Berlin Wall five years ago. West Berlin's police chief (since furloughed) hardly helped matters when he called the anti-Shah crowd "a liverwurst . . . You press it in the middle to squeeze it out at the end." To the distress...
...become more immune to chemical insecticides, scientists are developing other weapons against them. Like sex. By encouraging the mating of mosquitoes that are incapable of producing offspring, a West German scientist has wiped out the disease-bearing mosquito population of a Burmese village. And, the attraction that proved so fatal in Burma, he reported to a recent health conference in Washington, can have similar results elsewhere...