Word: pneumonia
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Crossing the Abraham Lincoln Square Lake without proper equipment simply means soaked, frozen feet and possibly pneumonia. A more frightening hazard in the aftermath of a winter storm is the falling of great chunks of snow and ice from rooftops and eves of University buildings. The only warning one may have of impending death from the sky is a cracking noise above and a flash of white...
...some of them rightly so, said the city health department after the presence of Asian virus had been confirmed. More than 100 children in one institution were affected. Predictably, some patients, who were already weak when the flu struck them down, contracted a second (bacterial) infection and pneumonia. As a result, the city's death rate rose, but not nearly as much as it had in the flu epidemics...
Partial Immunity. Most alarming to many doctors was a New York City outbreak of bronchiolitis and viral pneumonia among children. Some hospitals reported them twice as prevalent as ever before. And for this the Asian A-2 virus was not to blame. In many cases, the guilty microbe was one of the parainfluenza viruses...
...fate would have it, the Tories won relief of sorts from the drumfire of criticism at home through a tragic happenstance in the Labor Party. Hugh Gaitskell, Labor's capable, hard-working leader, was rushed to London's Middlesex Hospital suffering from pneumonia, double pleurisy and severe pericarditis. In great pain and scarcely able to breathe, Gaitskell was allowed no visitors except his wife...
Died. Warren Robinson Austin, 85, onetime Republican Senator from Vermont and first U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; of pneumonia; in Burlington, Vt. In the Senate, Austin was an outspoken internationalist who championed lend-lease in 1941 with a thunderously applauded oration: "I say that a world enslaved to Hitler is worse than war, and worse than death." Appointed to the U.N. by Harry Truman, he was a rough-and-ready adversary of Soviet propaganda efforts. His most dramatic hour came in 1950 when he answered Moscow's attempt to charge the U.S. with aggression in Korea. Austin held...