Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grandmother lived 101 years and his mother reached 103. Sebastian Spering Kresge, grounding his hope on heredity and a lifelong abstinence from whisky and tobacco, confidently expected to equal them, and he nearly did. But last week, nine months short of his hundredth birthday, Kresge died of pneumonia and complications that doctors gently described as "old age." For the founder of the S.S. Kresge Co.'s far-reaching chain of variety stores, not attaining the century mark was one of the few failures in a long and productive life...
Tuberculosis and pneumonia still kill the bulk of Filipinos; teachers are in surplus in Manila, in short supply in the countryside. With 70% of the population engaged in subsistence, peasant-style farming, the average annual income is a scant $140 a year?far less than that of Japan and Formosa. Population growth is among the world's highest: Catholic-dominated Filipinos add 1,000,000 mouths a year to the rice bowl (3.2%). Simultaneously, the economic-growth rate is a minimal 4.2% . The rice yield is scandalously low. Of the world's top 20 major rice-producing nations, the Philippines...
...such bench jockeys as Leo Durocher, Frankie Frisch, Mel Ott, and anyone else with the temerity to question his calls, at one time or another heaving pop bottles back at the stands, breaking the jaw of a catcher who attacked him, and thrashing a fan who did likewise; of pneumonia; in Rock Island...
...longer be true that when the Street sneezes, foreign bourses catch pneumonia. But foreign traders still suffer at least psychological symptoms from any U.S. decline. London's exchange last week hit a three-year low of 294 on the Financial Times industrial index, and British brokers admitted that they needed New York to "set the tone for recovery." The Swiss exchange, after peaking as New York did in February, is off 18%. Amsterdam's market has lost 25% of its values this summer, and West Germany's markets are off 20% since February. Paris' bourse...
...fourth of all dysautonomic children die by age ten, Dr. McKusick reports. After that the death rate mounts steadily; the oldest patient on record is 36. The usual cause of death is the very problem that the infant encounters at first feeding: inhalation of food into the lungs, causing pneumonia, often coupled with heart failure. So far, the best palliative treatment for dysautonomia consists of using tranquilizers to help control the intense vomiting that characterizes the disorder. There is no cure...