Word: pneumonia
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Died. Yehuda Leib Levin, 77, chief rabbi of Moscow's Central Synagogue since 1957 and unofficial spokesman for 3,000,000 Soviet Jews; of pneumonia; in Moscow. The white-bearded patriarch admitted that Jews in the Soviet Union suffer from the restrictions of "an atheistic culture." Like many religious leaders in Communist countries, however, he found it necessary to conciliate the regime. He took an anti-Zionist line and observed, accurately enough, during a U.S. visit in 1968: "There have been no pogroms...
Died. Naoya Shiga, 88, the grand old misanthropic master of Japanese letters, known to his countrymen as "the Divine Novelist" and "Emperor Shiga"; of pneumonia; in Tokyo. Shiga was a perfectionist who spent 16 years writing his only full-length novel, a semi-autobiographical work called Anya Koro (Journey Through the Darkness). But he was a prolific short-story writer and essayist. His delicate and unadorned prose made his works classics. Shiga was frustrated by what he considered the inadequacies of his own language: he once urged Japan to adopt "a more exacting foreign tongue...
Died. Lieut. General Lewis B. Puller, 73, the legendary Leatherneck who became the most decorated Marine in the corps' history; of pneumonia; in Hampton, Va. Weaned on the rousing reminiscences of Confederate veterans, Virginia-born "Chesty"-so called because he always walked like a pouter pigeon-was often described as a born combat leader. According to legend, he went into battle with a copy of Caesar's Gallic Wars tucked in his duffel bag. Volunteering as a private in World War I, Puller was commissioned at 20; he first saw action battling bandits in Haiti and Nicaragua...
Died. George Seferiades, 71, the Greek career diplomat who, as Poet George Seferis, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1963; of pneumonia; in Athens. Derived from the Arabic word sefer, meaning journey, the poet's name reflected the literary role he relished: that of Homeric chronicler. "My poems," he once said, "are my own voyages over the world." His lyrical work was often tinged with pessimism, as when he contrasted modern Greece with the Golden...
Dorchester's John Quirk, one of the injured veterans, will run despite a leg injury. Also competing today is Tom New, a letterman recovering from a bout last month with pneumonia...