Word: livers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Central Intelligence Agency slips into a railroad yard and checks the wear on ball hearings of freight cars coming in from China to try to spot unusual troop movements. Meanwhile, another agent goes to the Hong Kong central market and buys a large order of calf's liver from animals raised in China to run a lab test for radioactive fallout...
...gave himself a fix. He went into a steady decline. Though his records made millions, his last years were a hell of scrounging for drugs. He had a nervous breakdown, recovered, attempted suicide. In the end his body proved less durable than his music. Afflicted by cirrhosis of the liver, stomach ulcers and pneumonia, he died in Manhattan in 1955, a tragic figure who in a few short years had forever changed the sound of jazz...
Died. Lauritz Melchior, 82, golden-voiced Wagnerian tenor of New York's Metropolitan Opera for 24 seasons; of a liver ailment; in Santa Monica, Calif. (see Music...
...each other. Cappella is lonely and troubled mainly because he is unwanted and superfluous. He explains a painful extramarital relationship which resulted in a daughter whose true identity he had to keep from his wife; and between sad reminiscences he screams in the night for herring or chopped liver...
...McKernan, 27, scruffy blues singer and harmonica player with the Grateful Dead, the San Francisco rock group whose loud, countrified rhythm-and-blues has been a staple of the West Coast counterculture since the mid-'60s; from as yet undetermined causes (he had recently been under treatment for liver disease); in Corte Madera, Calif...