Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other men among the President's senior foreign policy advisers, not present at the meeting, shared Fulbright's feelings: Under Secretary of State Chester Bowles and Adlai Stevenson. In deference to these views, Kennedy made two separate rulings which were to contribute to the fatal dismemberment of the whole plan. First, U.S. air power would not be on call at any time. Second, the B-26s flown by "our" Cubans could be used in only two strikes before the invasion-first on D-minus-two-days and again on the morning of the landing...
Last week it appeared that Denver's Dean Johnston might long be remembered in the lawbooks to which he had devoted himself. Two years after his fatal heart attack, the Colorado Industrial Commission referee ruled that his death had come by overexertion while carrying out the duties of his employment, awarded Johnston's widow $11,466 in workmen's compensation. The commission itself later overruled its referee, only to be reversed, fortnight ago, by Denver District Court Judge Donald D. Bowman, who reinstated the award. Denver University, found the judge, paid Dean Johnston's fraternity dues...
...Johnston case, on its way this week to the Colorado Supreme Court, is not without precedent. New York has for some years held that physical or mental strain, resulting in a fatal heart attack, was overexertion under the workmen's compensation laws. But Judge Bowman ruled that Dean Johnston's fatal attack "constituted an accidental injury within the course and scope of his employment as dean." On that finding, the Johnston case could become a hallmark not in workmen's compensation but in the full field of life insurance. Said a worried insurance executive last week...
...help them pay off their debts. But when a G.A.'s hands itch for a hot pair of dice, a rush call to the local G.A. chapter will bring two or three fellow members on the run to talk the weakening high roller out of placing the fatal first...
...from two U.S. colleges-and earned him as much as $4,000 per half-hour; of a heart attack; in Peking. He defiantly grew a mustache to avoid entertaining China's Japanese conquerors during World War II, but traveled the world for the Communists, was visited during his fatal illness by another onetime tan (male actress)-Red China's Premier Chou Enlai...