Word: ill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another chapter in the history of John F. Kennedy's assassination drew toward a close last week. Jack Ruby, whose conviction for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald was struck down in October by the Texas Court of Appeals, lay incurably ill of cancer in Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital, to which he had been transferred from the Dallas County jail. The chances seemed remote that he would ever face his retrial, which is scheduled for February in Wichita Falls, Texas...
...underlying premise of the Communist quest for dialogue is that Karl Marx actually was not so ill-disposed toward Christianity as might be supposed from his famous dictum that "religion is the opium of the people." Garaudy argues that this condemnation must be understood as a response to the church's alliance with 19th century Europe's capitalist and authoritarian regimes. Marx and even Lenin, says Garaudy, were careful to distinguish the institutionalized church as they knew it from early Christianity, which was genuinely "revolutionary and democratic in spirit." Moreover, Marx acknowledged that Christianity had raised the right...
Last week the long suspense ended. The world's most powerful atom smasher, which will generate 200 billion electron volts of energy, will be built in Weston, Ill., a tiny (pop. 400) village 35 miles west of Chicago. A corn-belt community that began as a housing development only seven years ago, Weston is in for some very big changes. Its growth was stunted when the original promoter ran into financial difficulty and pulled out, and it remains so undeveloped today that it has no doctor, no school, no movie house, not even a store...
...Coppolino said of her husband: "That man has got to go." Then, she went on, the doctor gave her a drug with which to dispatch Farber. Her nerve failed twice, she said, and so she summoned Coppolino from his home up the street. After he administered injections to the ill and groggy Farber, Coppolino "pulled this pillow out from underneath my husband's head, and he put it over him, and he leaned his full weight down on him, and I just stood there." Why? "Because of hypnosis. I had no free will...
...easy task. For the most part, British prisons were built in Victorian times, when a prisoner was locked in his cell all day and even ate his meals in it. Thus the jails are ill prepared for today's more relaxed approach, in which inmates gather in rooms converted for cafeterias, craft shops and TV. Under such conditions, surveillance is not easy and escape routes are more numerous. These days, prisoners approaching the end of their terms are generally trusted on work details outside the prison walls. There simply are not enough guards to keep an eye on everyone...