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DIED. Arthur C. Nielsen, 83, founder and longtime chairman of the A.C. Nielsen Co., the Illinois-based market research firm (1979 revenues: $398 million); of pneumonia; in Chicago. Though the company's largest operation is its retail index, which charts purchases of grocery and drugstore products for corporate clients, it is most widely known as the source of the TV audience ratings that make or break shows and network executives alike. The system remains virtually unchanged since Nielsen introduced it in 1950: the TV tastes of the nation are distilled from a scientifically selected and highly secret sample...
...that he accumulated over the years.) He did not lightly dispense those bank notes. He preferred to give a delivery boy an instant drawing rather than a five franc tip. Fernande Olivier, with whom Picasso had his first lasting love affair, a liaison that lasted seven years, died of pneumonia in 1958, 46 years after their breakup. She received no financial help from her old lover. Picasso died worth at least $400 million. In the more realistic values of today's marketplace, his legacies are worth much more...
...first appeared to make a strong recovery from these operations, which he had been given only a fifty-fifty chance of surviving. In February, however, he suffered a relapse. A "weakening of the heart" was followed by an array of other ailments: kidney failure, liver damage, internal hemorrhaging, pneumonia, infection and high fever. Tito nonetheless managed to hang on, with the help of kidney dialysis, an external pacemaker and an experimental American antibiotic called Moxalactam. Two weeks ago, he sank into a coma that signaled the onset of the final crisis...
Tito's condition had temporarily stabilized last Wednesday, a week after he went into a coma and shock following a four-month battle with liver damage, kidney failure, high fever and pneumonia...
...physical stamina is doubtless the main reason for his survival, but another important factor has been the resourcefulness of his medical team, led by an old wartime comrade, Dr. Bogdan Brecelj, 74. The physicians have relied increasingly on medical machinery ever since his kidney failure and the onset of pneumonia. Dialysis treatment, to replace the kidneys' blood-cleansing function, has been used since late February. Tito is also receiving oxygen, and is reportedly hooked up to a respirator, which forces air in and out of his fluid-filled lungs, and an external pacemaker to regulate his erratic heartbeat...