Word: parkinsonism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PARKINSON'S disease presents a distressing set of symptoms. The patient suffers from shaking palsy. His gait becomes abnormal, and eventually he cannot walk. Finally there is a boardlike rigidity to his entire body that renders him immobile...
...instrument which S-17 will carry was made at the College Observatory by a group directed by Leo Goldberg, Higgins Professor of Astronomy. William Liller, Robert Wheeler Willson professor of Applied Astronomy, is assistant director of the project, and the instrument was built and tested by Edmond Reeves, William Parkinson, Donald Buckley, and Nathan Hazen...
...talk of popular virtues does not divulge the whole of Mrs. Perkins' personality. She possesses a certain something else, a stately, august quality which is distinctly Parkinson: she has it, her husband has it, and while they've been there, Lowell House has had it. In inspires a sort of genteel personality cult and though quickly recognizable, is thoroughly indefinable...
...Right Rev. Arthur Lichtenberger, 63, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, with Parkinson's disease, continuing in office on a severely limited schedule of appointments and public speeches; Bette Davis, 54. 1963 Oscar nominee, confined to her room at Manhattan's Hotel Plaza, battling flu; Ted Weems, 62. bandleader, on the critical list after an emergency tracheotomy to aid breathing (tentative diagnosis: stroke), at Hillcrest Medical Center, Tulsa...
Last week came another blow. Montreal's influential French-language Le Devoir picked up a whisper that has been going around for years, reported that Diefenbaker's occasional uncontrollable trembling of the hands could be the result of having Parkinson's disease. At the party's annual convention in Ottawa, Diefenbaker scoffed at the story: "For one who has been described in such touching and dulcet tones by the Liberal Party as being in a state of decrepitude, I want to remind them that we outran them three times, and we'll outrun them again...