Word: hearted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Levittown as well as Greenwich, and some of the wealthiest communities have slummy enclaves next to the commuter-train tracks. According to 1960 figures, Pittsburgh's suburbs had more substandard dwellings than the central city, and poor families around Los Angeles outnumbered those in the city's heart. With an astonishing 40% of the nation's poor now living in suburbs, crime and pollution problems are growing at the same rate there as in the central cities. Many suburbanites are without adequate sewers, police protection, garbage disposal and public transportation...
...most people, the flu means a miserable few days in bed. To the elderly and those suffering from chronic heart or respiratory diseases, it can be a prelude to fatal complications. Last week some 213 deaths in the U.S. were at tributed to the disease and accompanying complications. To try to protect the aged and infirm, seven national drug firms have produced 17 million doses of vaccine that are now being distributed across the country. Among the first vaccinated: former President Harry Truman...
...last years he was tormented by arthritis, failing eyesight and a weak heart. Not long before his death, he reflected: "I suppose it is an achievement to live to my age and feel that one has kept the faith, or tried to. To have had a part in some of the things that have been accomplished in the field of civil liberties, in the field of better race relations, and the rest of it-that's the kind of achievement that I have to my credit...
...Bach's spiritual depth alone clearly does not account for his force, any more than his forbidding technique does. What generates his awesome power is the dynamic equilibrium between both sides of his creative faculty. He gives a full measure of both head and heart, and stands as an exemplar not only of fullness but, above all, of balance. Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, of all people, once wrote of Bach: "He taught how to find originality within an established discipline; actually-how to live...
Died. Earl Eisenhower, 70, younger brother of former President Dwight Eisenhower, who once served a term in the Illinois State Legislature; of a heart attack; in Scottsdale, Ariz. A staid businessman for 35 years, Earl plunged into politics in 1964, was top Republican vote getter in an unprecedented at-large election for the Illinois House of Representatives. Two years later he ran for clerk of heavily Democratic Cook County. He lost by a substantial margin and retired to Arizona...