Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...RELOCATION OF the controversial Ellery Garage from Broadway Street to East Cambridge last week comes as welcome news to Harvard Square residents. Repeated complaints of overcharging on towing and storage rates, reckless driving by Ellery employees that culminated in a fatal traffic accident last July and charges that Ellery personnel harassed Broadway Street residents sparked two investigations by the State Department of Public Utilities (DPU). The agency probes resulted in a 60-day suspension of Ellery's towing license that went into effect on October 1; further punitive action may be taken in coming weeks...
...young killer-an d television-go on trial for murder On June 4 Elinor Haggart, 82, a Miami Beach widow, discovered two teen-agers burglarizing her home. It was a fatal incident: the intruders abruptly shot the old woman to death with a gun they had found in the house, grabbed $415 in cash and made their getaway in the victim's 1972 Buick. Four days later Ronald Zamora, 15, confessed to police that he had killed Mrs. Haggart, who also happened to be his next-door neighbor. This week Zamora is facing a Miami jury-his accomplice will...
Peter R. Lange, professor of Government and president of the Cambridge Civic Association, said even a small shift of support can be fatal under Cambridge's proportional voting system...
...three men sentenced to life imprisonment early this year for the fatal stabbing of Harvard senior Andrew Puopolo was stabbed yesterday in a fight at Massachusetts State Prison at Walpole...
...days when cholera was fatal in 50% of cases or more have long passed. (Before 1930, for example, cholera epidemics in India regularly took more than 300,000 lives a year.) Physicians now know that the shock and threat of quick death from cholera result from the massive loss of body fluid-as much as several gallons a day-through diarrhea. They can prescribe antibiotics, especially tetracycline, which may shorten the duration of the diarrhea. The dehydration can also be reversed, and the patient rehydrated, with a simple solution containing common salt, baking soda, potassium chloride and glucose...