Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PFCs: Richard Parker of Eckman, W. Va., Edward Spears of New York City, Raymond Host of Pittsburgh, Franklin Waddell and Robert Burrell of Philadelphia. The arrested men were Negroes, the injured and the dead whites. Even so, there was a debate at Evreux as to whether or not the fatal brawl was indeed a race riot...
...first three months of pregnancy has caused some malformations in babies, but the vaccine, all from the same batch, was unusually virulent. If a woman is vaccinated for the first time while she is pregnant, there is a risk that the baby will be born with a disfiguring or fatal case of cowpox. But if a pregnant woman is going to an area where smallpox always smolders, she should be vaccinated anyway, because the smallpox is far deadlier than any vaccine...
King continued stolidly: "It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality...
...citizens who have had their drivers' licenses revoked for drunken driving or who have been in a fatal crash are listed in a master file, against which the computer can check any new license application and flash a reply within 24 hours to the state that sends it. Although there is a move on to broaden the machine's purview, present law prevents the computer from registering any other offense (parking, running red lights, etc.), and subsequent acquittals, or other altered court judgments are caught by interstate exchange of records. So far, only the District of Columbia, Missouri...
...first word to reporters was that mother and child were doing nicely. But in the operating room, doctors knew differently. The President's son was suffering from hyaline membrane disease, a lung ailment common, and often fatal, to premature babies. Within minutes after the birth, the doctors called for Father John Cahill, an Air Force chaplain, who baptized the baby Patrick Bouvier Kennedy. Then began a desperate fight to save the infant's life...