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...talked about promising-sounding plans for decentralizing the school system, for curriculum changes, for integration without disruption: nothing came of them. He even failed to fill the key post of deputy superintendent in charge of personnel. During one time of crisis he was in Los Angeles-recuperating from pneumonia but well enough to make a speech; during another he was in Honolulu on vacation. He got into an unseemly public fuss with the board to get his salary raised from 540,000 to $45,000 a year...
...ridicule the idea, was so taken with it that he ever after devoted his energies and the profits (some $1,120,000) from twelve moral-re-arming books and 16 plays to the movement, eventually becoming its leader after the death of Founder Frank Buchman in 1961; of pneumonia; in Lima, Peru...
...there was not a single casualty among the 4,300 Vietnamese there. It was early afternoon when details about the Pleiku disaster arrived in Washington. Until nearly nightfall, President Johnson stayed on the phone with his security advisers, among them Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, home in bed with viral pneumonia...
Many a mother still believes that measles is one of those unavoidable childhood illnesses and amounts to nothing more than a seven-day siege of spots and fever with no lasting ill effects, but doctors know better. Every year, thousands or tens of thousands of children develop pneumonia from measles, and many of them die. Even worse is the fate of many of the 4,000 or so each year who develop encephalitis and do not die but are doomed to spend the rest of their lives in homes for the mentally retarded. Between its killing and crippling effects, measles...
Died. Kent Cooper, 84, general manager of the Associated Press from 1925 to 1948; of pneumonia; in West Palm Beach, Fla. A bluff, hearty farm boy from Indiana, "K.C.," as he liked to be called, was the visionary who built the A.P. into the world's largest news-gathering service: in the 1930s he pioneered the widespread use of the Teletype ticker and the transmission of photos by wire and radio, but made his major contribution by breaking ties with the cartel of European news services that once monopolized overseas stories, instead marshaling his own army of reporters...