Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Aside from Muskie's numerous advantages-including national recognition and a mid-party stance-there are other problems for the shy-looking plainsman. What his admirers regard as a pleasing, low-key image comes across to others as a lack of dynamism and popular appeal that could be fatal. His showing in polls last year was poor. A move by Ted Kennedy would probably eclipse him. Then there are the other Senate prospects: Humphrey, Birch Bayh, Henry Jackson and Harold Hughes, who form a secondary line of potential competition. Nonetheless, vows McGovern: "I'm not going to drop...
...Comstock and his colleagues made an incidental but fascinating discovery. Regular churchgoing, and the clean living that often goes with it, appear to help people avoid a whole bagful of dire ailments and disasters. Among them: heart disease, cirrhosis of the liver, tuberculosis, cancer of the cervix, chronic bronchitis, fatal one-car accidents and suicides...
...Fatal Symptoms. Suspecting an adverse reaction to the vaccine, doctors admitted the boy to St. Rita's Hospital in Lima, where tests strongly suggested that he had contracted the disease. They then began a desperate battle to save the youngster by treating not the infection itself-which responds to drugs poorly, if at all, once it has begun -but the secondary effects that kill its victims. Placing Matthew in intensive care, they put a tube in his throat to enable him to breathe and prevent him from choking on his own saliva. They also monitored his heart to assure...
...both the prosecution and the defense said that MacDonald seemed entirely normal; the defense psychiatrist added that MacDonald appeared incapable of committing so atrocious a trio of murders. Also, five of six doctors who testified said that at least one of MacDonald's wounds could easily have been fatal and that not even a physician could have inflicted it on himself safely...
...facts in this case are unique in American jurisprudence," said the Illinois Supreme Court. Donald Lang, 25, was charged with the fatal stabbing and beating of a woman friend. Lang cannot hear, speak, read or write. Nor does he understand sign language. For those reasons, Lang seemed clearly incompetent to stand trial. The question: should the state nonetheless...