Word: fatalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That night Flagler counted the gala day's toll: 20 dead, 50 injured. Every family in town could count a member killed or hurt. The toll might have been even worse. Just before the crash, a crowd of children ran from the fatal spot to get a better look at Fred Ruble's sail plane...
...reporters delved into the matter, it became embarrassingly plain that boxing had lost nothing of the sort. "Promising" George Flores, in 16 months of professional fighting, had lost seven of 20 bouts, four of them by knockouts, horizontal or technical. Twice in the month before the fatal match, Flores had been beaten so badly that the referee stopped the bout...
...insists on his individualism more than the French motorist. Only a few small towns have speed limits. A motorist may speed down Paris' famed Champs Elysées at 60 miles an hour, if he wants to (and often does). Result: France has over four times as many fatal traffic accidents per 100,000 drivers as the U.S. But even the French were startled last week by a statistic from one of the country's largest insurance companies: one in eleven French drivers, in his lifetime, kills someone...
...theory is that the enzymes help to dissolve clotted pus, enable an antibiotic such as streptomycin to go to work on the germs without interference.) Within 45 minutes, Branca Maria took some food and kept it down. It was too early for the doctor to tell whether the usually fatal disease was being arrested. But Santos flew back to Lisbon, picked up a dozen more vials of Varidase to keep up the treatments. Said he: "God bless radio and aviation. Whatever happens, this has shown that there is still a love of humanity in our world...
...Hogan (Jan. 10, 1949), 1948's golfer of the year and favorite for most top 1949 tournaments, lost the $15,000 Los Angeles Open Tournament during the week of the cover and three weeks later suffered a near-fatal accident in his car. (Hogan's subsequent comeback is one of the great sport stories of the decade...