Word: hoyte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DIED. Hoyt Fuller, 57, educator and literary critic who, as managing editor of Negro Digest and its successor Black World between 1961 and 1976, helped turn the magazine into a showcase for the nation's finest black writers; of a heart attack; in Atlanta...
Three girls who left their junior high school early to go to the game borrow binoculars from people sitting near them and peruse the White Sox bullpen. One of them chortles, "Oh Lamarr Hoyt, he's the one I like." And then a moment later, "Ugh! He just spit. That's so disgusting...
...eyes of doctors and loved ones, Siebert, 41, is a virtual vegetable with no hope of improving. She cannot talk, does not recognize her family and has the mental age of a twelve-to 18-month-old child. This glum report is disputed by Jane Hoyt, 36, a self-styled nursing-home reformer who befriended Siebert four years ago. She says that the stricken woman can mouth the Lord's Prayer and play tic-tac-toe, and she insists that Siebert is progressing. Incensed by the August agreement, Hoyt obtained a temporary restraining order that directs St. Mary...
While the case brings to mind Karen Quinlan, the New Jersey woman whose parents asked doctors to unplug her respirator, there is a difference: Siebert is not comatose and conceivably, Hoyt contends, could decide the life-support question herself some day. Whatever the outcome, the tragedy is another reminder that society has failed to develop rules for the use of modern technology...