Word: ill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GOOD COMPANY (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Attorney F. Lee Bailey takes a swing into Virginia for a chat with Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen (R., Ill.) and his wife, Louella, on their farm in Sterling...
...Graustarkian downtown city hall where Democratic Mayor Henry Maier holds sway. They were checked by Maier's ironfisted curfew. Earlier this month, the Groppians paraded through the Polish-dominated South Side and were met by abuse, firecrackers, beer cans and rage. Last week, while Groppi lay ill with summer flu and exhaustion, 80 of his stalwarts descended on the mayor's office, chanting "Sock it to me, Black Power" and "Mayor Maier, you punk!" For four hours, while cops stood by passively under orders from Maier to keep their cool, the commandos waited for a mayoral appearance. Then...
...morning last week his body was found in bed by his valet in his town house around the corner from Buckingham Palace. He was 32. Police uncovered "no suspicious circumstances," but no natural causes either. He had been ill with mononucleosis, but that disease is almost never fatal. So a coroner's inquest was ordered, with a verdict due this week. One speculation...
Illiteracy is a social ill that grates on a nation's conscience, raises painful visions of a stubborn ailment curable only by radical political surgery. Yet Mexico is showing the rest of the world that the condition can be successfully attacked with a combination of persistence, pesos and ingenuity. In 20 years, it has slashed its illiteracy nearly in half-from 52% to less than...
...below stairs, all is ill. One by one the servants quit the mansion in fear of something they never name. Only the butler is left to serve the shambles of a meal. Midnight comes and goes, but no guest makes a move to leave. At 4 a.m., before the horrified host, the guests loosen their jackets, gowns and coiffures and abruptly bivouac on the floor. The next morning they discover that somehow they cannot leave the room. Days go by. Their amusement becomes annoyance, then terror. Like miners entombed in a cave-in, they first cry out, then slowly sink...