Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Swift Sword. Pressing for a swift sword stroke against Hanoi's logistical network, McConnell cited the Israeli air attacks last June against the Egyptians: "If you had applied those sorties in 1965 when the North Vietnamese had practically no defense up there, you could have gone a long way. They had no opposition." Then he added with phlegmatic poignancy: "So it is a different world than...
Died. Carson McCullers, 50, vibrant voice of love and loneliness in the Southern novel; of a stroke, following 45 days in a coma; in Nyack, N.Y. In five gothic novels, she probed soul-deep into a misbegotten Dixie brood and found both depravity and innocence. Her characters ranged from Frankie Addams, tremulous near womanhood in The Member of the Wedding, to brutish Amelia Evans in The Ballad of the Sad Café. After reaching overnight success in 1940 with her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, she was beset by gradual paralysis, but kept writing-until...
Died. Prince Felix Youssoupoff, 80, gentlemanly assassin of Czarist Russia's "Mad Monk," Rasputin; of a stroke; in Paris. Heir to one of his nation's greatest fortunes (an estimated $350 million), Youssoupoff plotted with other noblemen in 1916 to murder Rasputin because of his hypnotic hold on the Czarina. As the Prince told it, he lured the holy man to his palace, where it took a combination of cyanide, five bullets and a bludgeoning to accomplish the deed. A refugee in France after the Revolution, Youssoupoff fought several court battles over its dramatization. Most recently he lost...
...Liberation Army troops into Canton, but the story that comes out is that they soon were at war with anti-Mao local troops and blasting away with mortars, artillery and tanks. Last week one traveler reaching Hong Kong described how some 200 Maoists were wiped out in a single stroke when anti-Maoists blew up a Cultural Revolution headquarters...
...adds, with a characteristic touch of superstition, that Stalin's soul, "so restless everywhere else," may still haunt that gloomy refuge. Svetlana last saw him two months before his death in March 1953. Trusting no doctors, he took quack remedies; he was to die of a massive stroke. As she records her fa ther's death, the full meaning of her ambivalence toward him rises from the page: she felt her "heart breaking from grief and love"-this after having characterized Stalin's "cruel and implacable nature...