Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through a morning drizzle, an ambulance was carrying Soblen-who is supposed to be mortally ill of leukemia-from Brixton Prison to London Airport. There he was to be put aboard a Pan American jet to New York; once in the U.S., he would at last begin serving the life sentence he got for turning national secrets over to the Soviets. But the ambulance never got to the plane: Soblen had swallowed a great wallop of barbiturates and collapsed on the way. Unconscious, he was rushed to Hillingdon Hospital-and his enforced return to the U.S. was off again...
...Ill lay: former Ambassador to Russia Llewellyn E. Thompson, 58, stricken with a kidney-stone attack while golfing on the Air Force Academy course near Colorado Springs; and former President Herbert Hoover, 88, still recuperating in a Manhattan hospital after the removal two weeks ago of a tumor in his upper colon that doctors announced last week was cancerous, but of a type that seldom recurs or spreads...
...great majority of people, especially the young and healthy, SLE is not a serious disease. It is marked mainly by a short spell of fever and a bad headache. This sort of attack leaves no lasting ill effects. But in a few victims, and especially those over 60, a high fever develops rapidly, the headache is so severe that aspirin and even morphine compounds give no relief; there are chills, nausea and vomiting. Some patients go into a coma or convulsions; if they survive such a severe attack, they may have suffered permanent brain damage. No medicine does any good...
...called because it was first recognized as a distinct disease, different from other forms of encephalitis, in the 1933 outbreak around St. Louis, when more than 1,130 people became ill and 201 died...
...most cases, however, the vast size of the Common Market simply spurs Europe's managers to seek greater growth. It was largely to brace Britain's already giant Imperial Chemical Industries against prospective Common Market competition that I.C.I. Chairman Stanley Paul Chambers launched his ill-fated attempt late last year to take over Courtaulds, Britain's biggest synthetic-fiber maker (TIME, Jan. 26 et seq.). On the same grounds, France's Saint-Gobain, Europe's biggest glass manufacturer and a burgeoning chemical maker, recently set up a joint market venture with Pechiney, another French chemical...