Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist voters, Palmiro Togliatti's allegiance was nominally and often vociferously to Moscow. But Togliatti was also the most supple of politicians, and as such he increasingly sought respectability among the voters at home. When he died last month in the Crimea following a stroke, it seemed that Togliatti's dilemma had gone to the grave with him unresolved...
Died. Sakari Tuomioja, 53, Finnish ranker and U.N. diplomat who proved himself a savvy, soft-spoken trouble-hooter in Laos in 1959, was picked by U.N. Secretary-General U Thant last March to try mediating the Cyprus dispute; following a stroke on Aug. 16, just before he was ready to present his own peace proposal to the embattled Greek and Turkish Cypriots; in Helsinki...
...Moguls, The Yankee Exodus) often found the human side more interesting than the heroic, serving up such tidbits as Ethan Allen's incurable love of "stonewalls" (cider laced with rum) and the fact that Billy the Kid in real life was a bucktoothed adenoid case; of a stroke; in Portland...
Died. Robert Wilson, 71, former board chairman of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, administrator, inventor, scholar, and recently retired member of the Atomic Energy Commission; of a stroke; in Geneva (see SCIENCE...
...nephew of Historian Henry, himself a longtime president of the Massachusetts Historical Society who in 1954 first opened for public view the Adams family papers, a priceless collection of handwritten books, diaries and letters that offers a unique survey of the nation's first century; of a stroke; in Concord, Mass...