Word: parkinsonism
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Died. Joseph Dunninger, 82, magician and mentalist; of Parkinson's disease; in Cliffside Park, N.J. Dunninger's first intimations of telepathic power came, he said, when he realized he could read grade-school classmates' minds and find solutions to math problems. Dunninger began as a magician (among his tricks: making an elephant disappear, sawing a woman in eighths), later perfected the mind-reading act that made him famous. Among the brains Dunninger picked were those of six Presidents and such luminaries as Thomas Edison and Pope Pius XII, who temporarily baffled him by thinking in Latin. Like...
...people sleeping and feels the eyes in the dark of the sleeping hall and can't make love: his daughter, who has adapted to her crowded world like a serene snowflake in a blizzard, whom he cannot understand; his father, being twisted and contorted and shook to death by Parkinson's disease; his mother, who believed that humanity was perfectible and gave herself to a life of committees for improvement, and cried when she came home every day--the face she was obliged to make at human truth...
...Pennsylvania offense is led by captain Mark Irwin, a junior center who has picked up eight goals and 16 assists in 18 games Joining him on the Quaker first line are sophomore Jim Hodge (8-14--22) and junior Ed Parkinson (9-8--17). In its last three games, however, the Pennsylvania offense has contributed to the team's slump by producing a total of just five goals...
...John Mitchell, conceded that "the maestro of the White House may have been orchestrating some pretty strange tunes." But Hundley contended that "it is obvious that John Mitchell was not one of the boys in that band." Though Neal had referred to Defendants Robert Mardian and Kenneth Parkinson as "cymbals" in the ensemble, Mardian's attorney, Thomas Green, insisted that his client "never sat in the orchestra-he sat down in the seats ... finally got up and walked out." H.R. Haldeman, who might have been described as first violin, was not assigned a rhetorical instrument...
...case for the defense was completed earlier in the week by testimony from Defendants Robert C. Mardian, 51, and Kenneth W. Parkinson, 47. Both emphatically denied that as attorneys for the Committee for the Re-Election of the President in 1972, they had participated in the coverup. Compared with the other three accused, John Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, Mardian and Parkinson have been relatively minor figures in the case, though Neal described them as "a necessary part of the orchestration...