Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anniversary and amid preparations for the marriage of R.F.K.'s oldest child Kathleen, 22, the Kennedy family was struck again. The towheaded twelve-year-old son of Edward Kennedy was found to have bone cancer, a rare and sometimes fatal disease of children. As a result, Edward Jr., called Teddy, underwent amputation of his right leg in Georgetown University Hospital. The Senator's elder son, second of three children, was an ardent fledgling skier, sailor and football player. Loving sports is, of course, part of the Kennedy tradition. So, too, was his father's decision to participate...
...Simple. Kouwenhoven, now 87, drifted into heart research almost by accident. In 1928, after 14 years at Johns Hopkins as an electrical engineer, he was asked by New York's Consolidated Edison Co. to help reduce electric shock fatalities among telephone linemen and the public. His work led him into medical research, and by 1933 he had proved that electrical shock could stop ventricular fibrillation-an often-fatal uncoordinated fluttering of the heart's pumping muscles. Kouwenhoven went on to develop the techniques: opening the chest, placing electrodes directly on the heart, and applying a brief jolt...
...horrible call by an official during the first quarter sent the Crimson offense into their fatal tailspin. The contested play: a Stoeckel pass to McInally; the criminal: a stingy Yale defensive halfback named Charity; the crooked judge: an official who refused to call interference after Charity flattened McInally while (but not before) the Stoeckel throw was in transit; the result: in six plays a Yale touchdown. From then it was all downhill: 14-0, 21-0, 28-0, 35-0. Splash...
...play again? Even her doctors cannot answer for sure. What is known about multiple sclerosis is that it is a disease of the central nervous system that impairs sensation, motor functions and balance. What is not known is its cause or cure. Its crippling, paralyzing and all too often fatal course-marked by alternating exacerbations and remissions-can be run in as few as three years or as many as 50. Hormones, especially of the cortisone type, can relieve acute symptoms during the early phases. By all odds, however, Du Pré's career and very possibly her life...
BAKER LIBRARY, Never Give a Sucker An Even Break, The Fatal Glass of Beer, with W.C. Fields...