Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wound up British royalty's longest romantic melodrama since the days of Edward VIII and Wallis ("the woman I love") Simpson by dropping her hopes of marrying Group Captain Peter Townsend. For all of his qualifications as a royal spouse, the dashing Battle of Britain hero had that fatal divorce in his background. So Britons were doubly cheered when, five years later at 29, the willful Meg finally made it to the altar, this time with Antony Armstrong-Jones, the arty son of a Welsh barrister and a promising photographer. But alas, even among royalty, ideas about divorce...
...Harold Schwartz, the signs left little doubt. The seven-year-old boy visiting his Huntington Park, Calif., office in 1959 had Marfan's syndrome, a genetic disorder of the connective tissue that can cause heart and eye problems, affect skeletal growth and occasionally be fatal. A few months later, the boy's grandmother dropped in to inquire about his condition and revealed that her husband had died of Marfan's. The grandmother's married name was Lincoln...
Since then, Schwartz, now 60, has traced the Lincoln Marfan gene back to 16th century England and now is more certain than ever about his theory. In the Western Journal of Medicine, he strongly suggests that had John Wilkes Booth not fired the fatal shot on April 14, 1865, Lincoln would have died within a year from complications of Marfan's syndrome-for which there is still no cure...
...England "A" doubles and "B" singles titles last weekend before damaging the ankle in practice Monday night--Fish's troops never really got a grip on the match, and their Eastern League record fell to 4-1. The loss dealt a serious--but by no means fatal--blow to the Crimson's quest for the league crown...
...Democratic leadership and the White House eyed those potentially fatal reversals of votes that had been cast for the first treaty last month, an equally damaging and more substantive division arose. Half a dozen Democratic Senators-notably Edward Kennedy, George McGovern and Patrick Moynihan-agreed with Panama's protest against a reservation added to the first treaty by Arizona Democrat Dennis DeConcini, which seemed to imply that the U.S. was free to intervene militarily in Panamanian affairs whenever it chose. They warned that they would vote against the treaty unless a "noninterventionist" clarification was added. But DeConcini and several...