Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Nicholas Schenck, 87, an old-style movie mogul who helped found Loew's Inc. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; of a stroke; in Miami Beach. Schenck's life was a Hollywood cliche in itself. The son of poor Russian immigrants, he scraped for nickels and dimes on Manhattan's Lower East Side, invested in beer concessions and amusement parks, finally in 1919 had enough of a stake to join Marcus Loew in founding the movie-house chain that spread across the U.S. MGM studios followed in 1924, and Schenck, armed with such stars as Clark Gable, Jean...
...each scene and underscore the precisely orchestrated tension. The film's ambiguous ending, which puts a parenthesis of fantasy around the action, may at first seem facile. On reflection, however, the viewer finds that a whole new range of interpretation has been opened with a single, clever stroke...
...Dartmouth sweep by a narrow margin over Steve Baumgart in the breast stroke made it close again, but Murphy's thrilling win ended all Indian aspirations...
Enrico Berlinguer, 46. Longo's health is failing; a stroke victim, he can deliver long speeches only from a sitting position. The handsome, vigorous Berlin guer is therefore almost certain to take over the party's leadership well before the 1974 elections and play a large role in Italian political life for years to come...
Died. Kingsley Martin, 71, eminent British Socialist and editor of the New Statesman from 1931 to 1960, whose radical views helped shape Labor Party policy and colored the entire fabric of British politics; of a stroke; in Cairo. When Martin came to the New Statesman, it was an insignificant left-wing weekly with a small readership and less clout. Martin drew his Fabian Society friends (G. B. Shaw, H. G. Wells) to the pages of the magazine, made it Britain's foremost intellectual forum, increased circulation to 80,000. His own influential column, "London Diary," was Utopian in thrust...