Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...press accused her of influencing policy, she insisted that she went along only to keep him awake. Woodrow Wilson's second wife Edith was called "the Acting President" because only she and a doctor could visit-and presumably influence -her husband during the months that he lay ill after a stroke...
...Communist bloc. That was perhaps what he hoped to talk about to Nikita Khrushchev when he started on a Black Sea vacation early this month. Near Yalta, two weeks ago, he suffered a stroke while visiting a Communist youth camp. Soviet doctors said he was too ill to be moved from the camp infirmary, and there last week, at 71, Togliatti died after exploratory brain surgery...
...hopes of California's Lockheed Aircraft Corp. seemed to crash in 1959 with its ill-starred Electra turboprop airliners, which eventually cost $25 million to modify and were largely responsible for driving the company $43 million into the red in 1960. Many wrote Lockheed off after this debacle, but the company had some ideas of its own. In an industry made cautious by military cutbacks, huge development costs and quick obsolescence, it has moved ahead with such exotic projects as the U2, the 2,000-m.p.h. A11 interceptor, and the still-secret RS-71 world-spanning reconnaissance plane. Lockheed...