Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dallas this week, another entrepreneur, named Aubrey Mahew, who bought the Texas School Book Depository last year, is opening the building to tourists. He has not yet decided how much to charge the tourists who want to see the sixth floor, where Lee Harvey Oswald fired his fatal shots. It is not entirely an ugly voyeurism that draws the public; no one objects to the tourists at Ford's Theater in Washington. Still, there is a certain obscenity about the enterprises that cash in on the Kennedy dead...
Blaming the System. So far, in varied sections of the U.S., the state of the economy does not seem to pose a fatal political threat to Nixon-yet. For the present, some Republicans take comfort from the fact that many people see Nixon as having inherited the mess from the Democrats. After a tour of southern Illinois. Norton Kay, a former Chicago political editor, reported that the President is "seldom blamed or mentioned. People talk about government as an abstraction rather than about Nixon as a person. They seem disillusioned with the System rather than with a party...
...Technique. A fatal mugging provided one. Jackson Gunya, 28, died after neurosurgeons found his brain injury irreparable. Barnard was ready for the six-hour operation that centered on a new technique. First, Herbert's chest was opened, he was put on the heart-lung machine, and his heart was removed -all but part of the left auricle (upper chamber). Next, Barnard removed each lung, leaving most of the patient's bronchi (the two main branches from the windpipe). These were clamped. Then the surgeon closed off the stumps of the pulmonary veins attached to the left auricle...
...guilt for the fatal shooting of four students at Kent State University in May 1970 appeared to be impossible amid the polemic and passion of the time. An Ohio grand jury attempting to assay culpability in the confused events placed blame on Kent State students and administrators and exonerated the National Guardsmen who fired into the crowd of demonstrators. But in making its report, the jury exceeded its authority under state law, and its findings were judged illegal by a federal court; they were ordered expunged from the public record, although 25 indictments against students and faculty members were allowed...
...practice that is far more serious -the inhaling of fumes from aerosol canisius becoming a fatal fad. Youngsters seeking a high spray the mist into a bag or other container and breathe deeply. About four deaths a month are now being recorded, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The gas propellants (usually fluorocarbons) in hundreds of different kinds of household sprays can kill quickly. They are carried by the blood from the lungs to the heart, where they interrupt normal cardiac rhythm...