Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doctor who devotes full time to giving people their death is Britain's Cicely Saunders of London's St. Joseph's Hospice, which cares almost exclusively for the incurably ill. The effort at St. Joseph's is to let each patient know he is dying and help him to live as thoroughly as possible during his last weeks or days. "This is the time in their lives when they can be emotionally and psychologically most mature," says Dr. Saunders. "You remember when Pope John said, 'My bags are packed. I am ready to leave...
Died. Andrew Joseph Gillis, 69, hell-raising ofttime mayor of Newburyport, Mass. (pop. 14,100), a brawling Irishman known as "Bossy," who bulled his way through six sporadic two-year terms between 1927 and 1959, engaging in such shenanigans (chopping down city-owned trees, libeling a judge) that he was arrested countless times, sentenced to two jail terms, and finally proved too much even for the whimsical citizens of his old seafaring town;* of a heart attack two days after losing his 20th bid for mayor; in Newburyport...
...about the same time, a pathologist named Langreuter scooped the brains out of corpses and, throwing a strong light down the throat from above, made definitive studies of strangulation. In 1900, Germany's Paul Uhlenhuth solved a problem that had vexed the authorities since the days of Joseph's coat: he discovered a chemical means of discrim- inating human from animal blood. The mysteries of blood coagulation were then elucidated-the blood of a person who dies suddenly, it was discovered, coagulates rapidly, but then, for no known reason reliquefies. The pathology of rape was explored-semen, somebody...
...Father Joseph H. Fichter is an example of this sometimes disconcerting blend of past and present. Fichter was appointed to the Divinity School faculty this fall as Chauncy Stillman Professor of Catholic Studies. But unlike his predecessors, who lectured in medieval history, Fichter holds a Harvard Ph.D. in sociology. Although he is a Jesuit, he admits he "can't remember the last time I read Thomas Aquinas...
...think we can give any guarantee that this could not happen again." Joseph C. Swidler, chairman of the Federal Power Commission, who is heading the government's investigation, said at a news conference Wednesday. But he added that there is "a very high order of probability" against...