Word: pneumonia
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DIED. Gjon Mili, 79, innovative LIFE photographer whose use of the high-speed electronic flash and multiple-exposure prints to capture movement too fast to be seen by the naked eye influenced two generations of photojournalists; of pneumonia; in Stamford, Conn. "Time could truly be made to stand still," Mili once said. "Texture could be retained despite sudden, violent movement." During his 45-year association with LIFE, the Albanian-born Mili did just that in thousands of stop-action pictures, among them one of Pablo Picasso using a penlight in his darkened studio to carve a drawing out of thin...
Andropov's ailments also made him unusually susceptible to infections and colds, which can easily develop into pneumonia in such patients. Medical concern about exposure to infectious agents was one reason for the Soviet President's absence from public meetings. His personal outside contacts were probably limited to close associates and Politburo members...
More ominous, in non-economic terms, the plight of the Indians is shocking. Twenty-five of every 100,000 Indians will be murdered in a given year, two-and-a-half times the national average, and 22 will kill themselves--twice the national average. Diseases like diabetes, pneumonia, influenza and tuberculosis are generally three times as likely to take Indians' lives as others...
DIED. Brooks Atkinson, 89, magisterial New York Times drama critic and Pulitzer-prizewinning foreign correspondent; of pneumonia; in Huntsville, Ala. From 1925 to 1960. Atkinson lent a cool, impartial presence to Broadway, interrupting his career to cover World War II and the postwar Soviet Union. After leaving the critic's chair, he wrote nearly a dozen books on the theater, travel and nature...
...this have been great?" writes Deford. "After we had hugged each other, she left the room, because, I knew, she wanted to let me cry alone." At the end of her last stay at Yale-New Haven Hospital, when her ordeal with CF had been compounded by arthritis, pneumonia and collapsing lungs, Alex said to a nurse, "I'm going home to die now, but don't you tell my Mommy or Daddy because it'll upset them...