Word: prolongation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intimidation reaches everywhere. African political parties are banned, their leaders in prison or isolation. The regime can hold anyone for 180 days without charge, indefinitely prolong the sentence of any political prisoner. It can also order anyone too critical of its policies confined to his home for years, forbid newspapers to quote him on any subject. Backing up the laws is a tough, efficient police force, plus a military and paramilitary organization specifically trained to put down insurrection. Top cop is Justice Minister Johannes Balthazar Vorster, 50, a devout Nationalist whose background includes two years in a South African internment...
...baths of Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia, seldom causes more than a ripple of interest in the world of cinema. Last week, however, the centuries-old spa-known as Carlsbad when Dostoevsky used to gamble away rubles at the casino, while the crowned heads of Europe took the waters to prolong their reigns-was jammed with film buffs, critics, buyers and distributors from all across Europe and the U.S. None of them had anything more than a peripheral interest in the dreary assortment of 42 films from such ersatz Hollywoods as Mongolia and Tunisia that were officially in competition for Karlovy...
...Boston, Episcopal Father Scott Paradise works mostly with the Ph.D.s who man the burgeoning research and development industry; with them, he poses issues that are far more speculative. Sample problem: A company has been offered a contract to develop an artificial organ that could prolong life. One key problem is that a lubricant must be added to the patient's blood; while preliminary tests indicate that it is probably harmless, it might possibly affect a patient's mental stability. Since the contract calls for human experimentation, should the company accept the deal, and how should it carry through...
...manages to win both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, and everybody figures that the sport of kings is due for another coronation. But the last horse to win U.S. racing's Triple Crown was Citation in 1948-and the less said the better about his attempts to prolong the royal line at stud. Pretenders still keep popping up: Tim Tarn in 1958, Carry Back in 1961, Northern Dancer in 1964. What does them...
...intricate machinery should be turned off and the heart allowed to stop, is far more than a legal problem. It involves the doctor as deeply as it does the patient or his anguished kin. Trained from his first day in medical school that his duty is to save and prolong life, the physician may not only resort to extraordinary measures, but he may continue them even after a flat EEG line (meaning no electrical activity in the brain) has persisted so long that there can be no real hope of recovery...