Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anything. That was more than 1,900 years ago-and I'm not so sure he was meek and humble." Then, in August, 1959, Dooley underwent chest surgery at New York's Memorial Hospital for melanoma-a rapidly diffusing form of cancer that is almost always quickly fatal...
...inch shorter than his right, and the resulting seesaw effect tended increasingly to bring the spasms back. By 1954 he was a cripple on crutches. He hobbled into New York's Hospital for Special Surgery. Doctors tried a delicate spinal fusion. It failed, and Kennedy contracted a near-fatal staphylococcus infection. Another operation four months later was successful, and novocain treatments broke the cycle of muscle spasms. The President still must wear a quarter-inch riser in the heel of his left shoes and sneakers, and a small brace to support his back muscles...
...Gann's own career as a commercial pilot, reaching back to the days of open-cockpit biplanes "and the strangely pleasant odor of wood and shellacked fabric, of which our airplanes were made." It is a testament to lost friends. Every chapter is darkened with the memory of fatal crashes. The dedication lists 397 "old comrades with wings forever folded...
Along with the unforeseeable misfortunes-Jack's near-fatal illness, Jackie's two miscarriages-the Kennedys had some basic areas of incompatibility, and both were vigorous, determined individuals with emphatic tastes. Jack was a meat-and-potatoes man; Jackie favored the haute cuisine of France. Her arty friends bored him (on one occasion, when the lively arts dominated the dinner conversation, Jack simply left the table and retired early). The Senator thrived on large crowds of people; his lady preferred intimate groups of close friends. Jack read American history; Jackie wolfed down four or five novels, ranging from...
...Duck with Moxie. Jackie took pains to study and analyze each member of the Kennedy family. Once, in Palm Beach, she was 15 minutes late to lunch with her father-in-law. "That can be fatal with Joe when he's in one of his Emperor Augustus moods," says Investment Banker Charles Spalding, who was present. "So when she came in, he started to give her the needle, but she gave it right back. Old Joe has a lot of old-fashioned slang phrases, so Jackie told him: 'You ought to write a series of grandfather stories...