Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worth-and to win re-election in 1969-before he can raise his sights. In 1970, he could run for Senator or Governor, whichever post that Bobby Kennedy is not seeking. The two may well clash some day, and it would be foolish for either to risk a fatal collision in New York...
...before he was captured, Che wrote that his dwindling band had questioned a local woman about nearby troops and got nowhere. "She was given 50 pesos and cautioned to say nothing," Che wrote, "but with little confidence that she would keep her word." Che's final, fatal error was getting trapped where he did. Though the steep, dense ravines provided ideal cover for his men, the army was able to command the mountains and finally surround him and seal off all exits...
...Precisely how to implement that conviction proved to be a major issue at the opening sessions of the church's triennial General Convention in Seattle last week. In his opening state-of-the-church address, Presiding Bishop John E. Hines declared that the racial crisis "can be as fatal to the well-being of this nation as anything short of a nuclear holocaust" and proposed that the church spend $3 million a year in poverty programs for urban ghettos. Hines also invited other faiths to join Episcopalians in a "fullscale mobilization of our resources...
...women's 100-meter world record (11.1 sec.), saw no need to duck the test and readily submitted to having a few cells scraped from inside her cheek for chromosome analysis. On the basis of the microscope's evidence, three Russian and three Hungarian doctors gave the fatal verdict: Ewa is not a woman because she has "one chromo some too many...
Physicians who deal with leukemia are reluctant to talk in terms of "breakthroughs" and "cures." Their fundamental position is that acute leukemia, the most common killing disease among children aged three to 14, is still fatal. With that reservation, however, a group of first-rank U.S. medical researchers met in Boston last week to discuss a series of remarkable gains that are now giving leukemia victims progressively longer survival times with greater comfort. In a few cases, they reported complete freedom from evident disease for as long as 15 years. In cautiously double-negative terms, they admitted that they could...