Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Party was both the villain and the victim of the messy election. Enabled to rule Italy only by joining in coalition with Pietro Nenni's Socialists, the Christian Democrats were determined to elect one of their own party President. Antonio Segni, who had resigned in December because of ill health, had shown that the office was not merely ornamental but could also be a position of influence and, on occasion, of real power...
...person whose heart stops suddenly and unexpectedly, the best places in the U.S. to be this winter are Baltimore and Washington, Albuquerque and Rockford, Ill. This has nothing to do with geography or climate or the overall quality of medical care in those widely separated cities. It is because ambulances and hospitals there are equipped with a relatively simple and highly portable device that seems to be the best thing yet for prompt and effective resuscitation...
...immediate mouth-to-mouth breathing by one rescuer and simultaneous chest massage by another, until the Thumper arrives, to do both jobs precisely and tirelessly all the way to a hospital. Within hospitals themselves, HLRs are expected to be useful in emergency rooms and intensive-care units, where seriously ill patients are especially subject to heart stoppage...
...near Milwaukee is "the world's smallest plane," designed by Ray Stits of Riverside, Calif., which has a wing spread of only 7 ft. 2 in. but can make 185 m.p.h. Another E.A.A. member built his own single-seat helicopter, flew it 500 miles from Missouri to Rockford, Ill., last summer. In the words of an admiring E.A.A. member, it must have been like "soaring across the country astride a dining-room chair...
...history. The time is May 1910, and a matchless assemblage of European royalty has gathered in London for the funeral of King Edward VII. Striding among the plumes, epaulets and gold braid are Edward's nephew, Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, King Albert of Belgium and Austria's ill-fated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, three players already swept up in the genesis of a tragedy to be known as World...