Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long while, it seemed that Alvin York was determined to contribute to another Army legend-that old soldiers never die. He had begun to fade as early as 1949, when he suffered a stroke, was repeatedly hospitalized thereafter, but he clung to life. Only last week did death, of "general debility," finally come in a Nashville Veterans Administration hospital to Alvin York...
...come to an end." But somehow Bob Wilson never settled down. Last month he journeyed to Geneva to work as an adviser to the U.S. delegation at the U.N. International Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy. There, last week, still in the public service, he died of a stroke...
Died. Dr. Norman Welch, 62, president of the American Medical Association since June, who dutifully took up the A.M.A.'s longstanding fight against medicare, but lacked the fiery rhetoric and unrelenting determination of former President Dr. Edward Annis; of a stroke; in Jackson...
Died. Palmiro Togliatti, 71, boss of Italy's Communist Party since World War II; following a stroke; near Yalta, Russia (see THE WORLD...
...believed it would be a tactical mistake to try to drum China out of the Communist bloc. That was perhaps what he hoped to talk about to Nikita Khrushchev when he started on a Black Sea vacation early this month. Near Yalta, two weeks ago, he suffered a stroke while visiting a Communist youth camp. Soviet doctors said he was too ill to be moved from the camp infirmary, and there last week, at 71, Togliatti died after exploratory brain surgery...