Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. The Very Rev. Jean Baptiste Janssens, 74, Superior General of the 33,000-member Society of Jesus (Jesuits) since 1946; of complications following a stroke; in Rome. An austere Belgian, Janssens was best known for the General Congregation he called in 1957 to propose that his own absolute authority be diluted, but which came to nought after Pope Pius XII warned that obedience should not be replaced by "a 'democratic equality' in which subjects argue with their superiors...
Claudia Kolb, a 14-year-old from California, placed second behind Russia's world record holder Galina Prozumen-schikiva in the women's 200-meter breast-stroke...
...Londoners are sure, meticulous professionals who paint as if every brush stroke were their last. They are totally uninterested in the haunting, elusive landscape that for centuries has been the obsession of English painters. Rather, it is the minor and least honored theme of English art, literary painting, that has primed their vision. The time may be ripe for them. Among collectors and critics, weary of the inward-turned, paint-for-paint's-sake language of abstract expressionists, almost any lively new departure stirs serious interest...
...dinar). A wealthy Yugoslavian widow (Ingrid Bergman) returns after twenty years to the small town from which she had been driven, disgraced and pregnant, by the perjured testimony of her lover, Serge Miller. Now, she offers to free the town and its inhabitants from their poverty at a stroke--in return for Miller's life. After hearing their first indignant refusal, she settles down to wait...
...Hopkins Medical School, best known for his lifelong fight against antivivisectionists, ("a crippling obstacle to the advance of medical knowledge"), who in 1950 carried his case to Baltimore voters in a referendum, won a lopsided victory and a permanent key to the city dog pound; of complications following a stroke; in Baltimore...