Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...popular image of Dag Hammarskjold has-changed more in the three years since his fatal plane crash than that of most statesmen changes in generations; and the cause is a posthumously published "spiritual diary" that he kept for thirty-six years, from the age of twenty until a few weeks before his death. Although Hammarskjold never showed this record to anyone, he decided sometime in the 1950's to leave it behind as "the only true 'profile'" of his personality...
...male jury last week deliberated for 19 hours, finally returned a verdict of second-degree murder against Manhattan tin-can Manufacturer Mark Fein, 32, in the fatal shooting of his bookie (TIME, Nov. 20). The crime is punishable by 20 years to life. Second-degree murder is defined as killing in the heat of anger, without premeditation. The definition did not necessarily fit the circumstances of the Fein case, but the jury was not about to send a man to the chair on the say-so of the chief witness, Gloria Kendal, described by a defense attorney as "this procuress...
...trip to straighten out "a party problem in Texas," was riding in the car behind the President when he heard Oswald's shots. "I saw the third shot hit. It was such a perfect shot-I remember I blessed myself. I was rather convinced that it was a fatal blow." Outside the emergency room, O'Donnell talked with Jackie. "I tried to in some way imply that she might leave and come with us, at least to get her out of that room. She was covered with blood. Her response to me was that she would not leave...
...month's trial and conviction of 19-year-old Michael Smith for negligent homicide in the car-crash death of Nancy Hitchings. Alpert, Smith's chum at Norwalk Community College, a night school, had volunteered vivid descriptions of staggering drunkenness at the debutante party that preceded the fatal accident. He himself did not drink, said Alpert, airily explaining: "I have no need to dull my senses...
...animals but also for humans. In 1959 two Du Pont chemists rejiggered the molecular structure of adamantane a bit and developed a new compound, known as EXP-105-1. Scientists then began running tests on 6,000 mice a week, spraying their noses to fill their lungs with fatal doses of viruses. The compound raised the mice's resistance...