Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ill lay: Author-News Commentator Lowell Thomas, 71, in Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital in satisfactory condition after a mild heart attack; Actor Anthony Perkins, 31, for three days, after he sprained his ankle while chasing through the woods with Brigitte Bardot during the filming of Une Ravissante Idiote near Paris; Ballplayboy Bo Belinsky, 26, for a day, after breaking his nose in two places when his surfboard rose up and clobbered him off Waikiki...
...could be as rough on lawyers as on defendants, often barked his caustic impatience when counsel seemed to him to be sluggish or ill-prepared. "His facial expressions and gestures," said one critic, "his intonations, his pauses at the proper moment, all clearly indicate his belief or disbelief in a witness' testimony." He got into rows with his colleagues too, once said in open court that he hoped another judge would "keep his filthy mouth shut." The remark brought official rebuke for "using a courtroom as a forum for vilification of a fellow jurist...
...Israel, describes his attempts to convert Eichmann before his execution. After condemning Hull for being "puerile" and for attempting "to browbeat Eichmann into a 'repeat after me' attitude," Lee accepts his claim that Eichmann never recognized his own guilt. He was therefore, Lee says, "no willful Edmund, Richard Ill, Iago, or Flamineo, for the willful ones find out." Men like Eichmann, on the other hand, "have engaged in no quest, no pact, no pursuit in the name of something, they have no moments of lucidity in which they stand judged...
...Dream. Once in a while, a lucky team lands an angel with bulging pockets-like Stockbroker Bob Nussbaum, who was going to buy a race horse, wound up getting the Chicago Panthers instead. Beside themselves with gratitude, the Panthers elected him coach. When they beat the Elmhurst, Ill., Travelers 41-0 recently, Nussbaum called every play from the bench. "It's a fan's dream," sighs Nussbaum. "Bring on the Green Bay Packers...
...Louisianian, White fought for the Confederacy, was taken prisoner and released on parole. Gravely ill, he collapsed at the side of the road while trying to make his way home. He might have died had a Union soldier not stopped and helped him by covering him with a Union overcoat. It was then, said Warren, that White "decided to devote his energies to a reconciliation between the North and the South...