Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Wayne, 70, craggy hero of some 200 movies; with suspected respiratory ailments following bouts of flu and pneumonia; in a hospital in Boston...
...white South African minority to retain political power with tactical nuclear weapons. To add injury to insult, Castle learns that the man who helped his wife escape from her country, a Communist agent and a close friend named Carson, has recently died in a South African prison, officially of pneumonia. (But understanding how Pretoria operates, Castle knows otherwise.) Castle may be cowardly, apolitical and jealous only of his own happiness, but this is finally too much...
DIED. Walter Muir Whitehill, 72, historian and man of letters who became known as "Mr. Boston" for his successful crusade to preserve some of the landmarks of his city; of pneumonia; in Boston. A pragmatist who fought to "save what is good for practical use as places to live in and work in," Whitehill played a large part in restoring Boston's 19th century Quincy Marketplace and making it into a thriving new commercial center...
...remembers Bob that way. He arrived in Denver after finals just before midnight on June 8, planning to visit Bob the next morning with Mary Lyn. She called about 7 a.m. that morning and told him Bob had died of pneumonia about 3 a.m. There would be no funeral, Bob's father announced. The body would be cremated immediately...
DIED. Dr. Martha May Eliot, 86, unpretentious, single-minded former chief of the U.S. Children's Bureau (1951-56) who was responsible for a dramatic decline in maternal and infant death rates; of bronchial pneumonia; in Cambridge, Mass. In 1921 Dr. Eliot left her private pediatric practice ("I never felt comfortable about asking for my fees") to study rickets, and along with Dr. Edwards Park of Yale discovered the preventive value of sunshine and cod liver oil. In 1947 she became the first woman to be president of the American Public Health Association...