Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sick in bed last week with pneumonia, Fidel Castro was made just a shade more miserable by outcries of opposition in the streets. After a special Mass at Havana cathedral for "those persecuted under Communist regimes." members of the congregation surged into the street shouting, "Cuba, yes! Russia, no!", a variation on the Castro cry of "Cuba, yes! Yanqui, no!'' For 30 minutes the churchgoers battled pro-Castro hecklers. Next day another street fight erupted after a Mass in suburban Miramar to mark the 24th anniversary of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Castro wearily hauled himself...
...hard pace took its toll on Jake Swirbul. Last week, at 62, weakened by cancer and stricken with pneumonia, he died. When Board Chairman Roy Grumman announced the news over the plant public-address system, there were workers on the assembly line who wept...
Died. Leon A. Swirbul, 62. a founder and president since 1946 of Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp., whose morale-boosting labor policies helped the company, with its Wildcat and Hellcat fighters, lead the industry in World War II combat-plane production; of pneumonia while ill with cancer; in Manhattan (see BUSINESS...
...became the first U.S. Senator elected on the Farmer-Labor ticket, served four terms-the last as a Republican-before his intransigent isolationist career was ended in the 1946 primary by Harold Stassen's hand-picked candidate, Republican Edward J. Thye; of congestive heart failure complicated by terminal pneumonia; in Alexandria, Minn...
...landscape painter, who in 1898-when his wagon broke down while he was on his way to Mexico on a sketching trip-stayed on in Taos, N.M., founded an artists' colony that attracted Max Weber, John Marin. D. H. Lawrence, Willa Gather and Mabel Dodge Luhan; of bronchial pneumonia; in Albuquerque...