Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Valerie Jeanne Percy, 21, twin daughter of Illinois' Republican Senatorial Candidate Charles Percy; murdered by an unknown assailant; in Kenilworth, Ill. (seeTHE NATION...
Everett Dirksen was an eight-term Congressman back in 1948 when his doctors told him that he was losing his eyesight. Though a sure winner, he declined to run for a ninth term and went home to Pekin, Ill., to pray. Dirksen, who today is almost as sound of vision as he is of voice, is genuinely convinced that what saved him from blindness was prayer-and he is determined to pass on its 20/20 benefits to the rest...
Resigning Cardinals. If the request is generally followed, the Catholic hier archy will be decimated. Spain's primate, Enrique Cardinal Pla y Deniel, 89, sent his resignation to the Pope more than a year ago upon falling ill; it may now be accepted. Of the other Spanish cardinals, Malaga's Angel Herrera y Oria, 79, sent a resignation that was accepted, and Tarragona's Benjamin de Arriba y Castro, 80, reportedly offered to step down. Paris' Maurice Cardinal Feltin, 83, said last week that he planned to retire, and Bologna's Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro...
...workers in the key Revolutionary Development Cadre program, describing the 59-man teams sent into the countryside as "a dagger pointed at the Viet Cong's heart" (though an official Vietnamese assessment in preparation tells another story-of faulty recruiting, bad training, improper use of workers and ill-advised psychology). Komer notes proudly that 12,106 Viet Cong have surrendered under the Chieu Hoi (Open Arms) amnesty program so far in 1966-nearly 1,000 more than for the whole of last year-but, again, ignores a sad record of Vietnamese in difference and downright hostility to rehabilitating yesterday...
Died. Dr. William Menninger, 66, psychiatrist and head (with his better-known older brother Karl) of Kansas' famed Menninger Foundation, a rangy, friendly Midwesterner who made himself the nation's most dedicated campaigner for better care of the mentally ill, a subject about which he tirelessly lectured government, industry and the public in speeches, articles and books (You and Psychiatry, Understanding Yourself); of cancer; in Topeka...