Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Briefly he surfaced this fall when he was arrested, along with three other Angels, and accused of raping two teen-age girls-charges that were later dropped. The newspaper announcement after his fatal accident said simply, "Friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral services," but it became a rallying cry. Into Sacramento roared nearly 300 motorcyclists, including such normally dissident groups as the Hangmen, Grossmen, Gladiators, Falcons, Thunderbirds, Mofos and Marauders. In homage, all wore their club insignia; many sported earrings, German Iron Crosses and Nazi swastikas...
...interest in favor of protecting the pharmaceutical manufacturers. Some recent examples of action, inaction and disputed decisions: ≫ SULFAS. FDA last week announced that it was requiring new labeling on two long-acting sulfa drugs marketed by three firms,* "to warn against rare cases of a severe and sometimes fatal side effect," a blistering and ulceration known as the Stevens-Johnson syndrome. There have been 81 reported U.S. cases "associated" with the drugs, with 16 deaths, eleven among children. There have been relatively fewer such cases and no U.S. deaths ascribed to the short-acting sulfas, which have...
...blood to the heart's own muscular walls. Physicians have long known that the dangerous clots usually form where a coronary artery is narrowed by a scaly deposit, or "plaque," of chalky, fatty material. But for all its importance, a nagging question has remained unanswered: How does the fatal clot really form...
Unhappily, as was often the case with Victorian politicians, Dilke's private life was rather less exemplary than his public activity. He had a fatal attraction to the tigress type, and during his 20s and 30s he apparently conducted affairs with three or four appallingly predatory women-among them his sister-in-law's mother...
...Fatal Split. Why did she want to destroy Dilke? Author Jenkins argues that despite his protestation of utter innocence, Dilke actually did have an affair with Mrs. Crawford before she was married; that Dilke refused to marry her; that she ruined him because he had "ruined" her. But nobody knows for certain. What is certain, or seems so on the evidence Jenkins supplies, is that Dilke was the only man who could hold the Liberals together. Within a year of his political demise the party split, and Gladstone's last administration foundered in failed majorities. One woman...