Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Assassinations, even unsuccessful attempts on the lives of American leaders, strike so swiftly and frighteningly that TIME correspondents, like other journalists, need no marching orders from the home office before starting work. On the almost fatal scene with the President Friday morning was TIME'S veteran Sacramento stringer Tom Arden. As soon as Lynette Fromme's gun was wrested away, Arden began gathering eyewitness accounts of the attempt. San Francisco Bureau Chief Joseph Boyce took off for Sacramento and covered Fromme's midafternoon arraignment. Correspondent John Austin remained in San Francisco gathering background material. The Los Angeles...
...been known since the late 1960s that for some women, the Pill enhances the dangers of blood clots forming in the legs (thrombophlebitis) and traveling to the lungs (pulmonary embolism), with possibly fatal results. The Pill may also cause strokes. That indictment originated with two teams of Britain's most eminent epidemiologists, now at the University of Oxford. The danger has since been widely confirmed, although the risk that any particular woman will suffer any of these severe effects is statistically small. The latest indictment is based on two later studies by essentially the same research teams...
...nonfatal heart attacks is only 2.1 per 100,000. But for those on the Pill, the rate rises to 5.6 per 100,000. For women aged 40 to 44, the rates for the two groups are 9.9 and 56.9 respectively. Similar increases are found in the rate of fatal heart attacks: ages 30-39, only 1.9 per 100,000 nonusers against 5.4 per 100,000 among users; in the 40-44 group, 11.7 for nonusers and 54.7 for users. The best available figures indicate that 18% of Pill users are in the 30-39 age bracket, and only...
Proved Protection. Whatever the cause-parental overconfidence, carelessness or ignorance-the situation may well lead to a comeback by diseases that had been almost conquered. In the 20 years since polio vaccines became available, the number of U.S. cases of that crippling and often fatal disease has fallen from a peak of 58,000 in 1952 to a mere seven in 1974. Common or "red" measles (rubeola) used to strike 4 million children a year, kill 400 and leave 800 with irreparable brain damage. By last year, the total number of cases was down to 22,000; only a handful...
Guido Carli, it has often been said, is the Italian economy. In 14 years as governor of his country's central bank, he became the embodiment of economic responsibility, rescuing Italy from three near fatal crises and earning for the Bank of Italy a reputation as one of the few Italian institutions that function properly. So, when Carli, 61, announced in May that he intended to quit, few people believed it-especially since he added that he had been trying on and off to do so since 1970. But he did mean it, and last week the bank...