Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frame through which El Cordobés' life is seen is his Big Fight - the 1964 Madrid corrida in which he was elevated to the status of matador de toros and in which he survived a near-fatal goring. Every tense moment in this corrida is the cue for a flashback: the future El Cordobés growing up in an earth-floored hovel where he sometimes has only grass to eat; serving a grueling apprenticeship at village fiestas where the only available medical care is a slosh of alcohol in an open wound; rising under the tutelage...
...easily. Most of them lack facilities for extracting serum albumin, and would have to buy that. But if they do not ship across state lines, federal regulations cannot touch them. Meanwhile, the number of federally reported cases of serum hepatitis-a miserably lingering and debilitating liver disease, sometimes fatal-is running at double the 1967 rate, with 2,050 cases tallied so far this year...
...judge saw it, the students ran into fatal trouble on the very "threshold" issue: he was not convinced that his court had jurisdiction, despite the students' claim that the university was an agent of the state. Frankel agreed that some Government money helped to support the university, but that "is not enough to make the recipient an instrumentality of government," he said. "Nothing supports the thesis that university 'education' as such is a 'state action...
...Republican rebels keep up the fight, the battle promises to be spirited but probably not fatal for the President's men, who need only a simple majority for confirmation. Not only do the Democrats have close to a 2-to-l majority in the Senate, but several Republicans, including Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, have also promised to vote for confirmation. Fortas, said Dirksen, is "a very able lawyer" with "sound" philosophy. He called Thornberry, a Congressman for more than 14 years, a "very solid citizen...
...received dummy capsules. So far, there have been 47 new heart attacks, 37 among the 700 men on the placebo, but only ten among those on clofibrate. Of 17 attacks among men who had previously had a heart attack, only three struck men on the drug. There were twelve fatal heart attacks, but only four among men taking clofibrate...