Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Vincent du Vigneaud, 77, winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his synthesis of two pituitary hormones; of a stroke; in White Plains, N. Y. Chairman of the biochemistry department at Cornell University Medical College, Du Vigneaud headed a team of scientists who succeeded in 1946 in synthesizing penicillin, the climax of years of work by an international task force...
PETER SELLARS has stroked a bold production of Antony and Cleopatra in the ghostly waters of Adams House Pool, with frigid temperatures and floating death cooling the flames of Shakespeare's most passionate tragedy. Not that it isn't lively--Sellars sustains the initial gimmick with scene after scene of slapstick splashing and general mayhem, but balances his off-the-wall antics with a sound sense of the appropriate; invention almost seems subordinate to the text. If it frequently resembles a circus, it is an indisputably Shakespearean circus, the Bard doing breast-stroke, the actors barnstorming with the kind...
...Health, Education and Welfare and Cooper was director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the two inaugurated the National High Blood Pressure Education Program. With its educational and medical contributions, the program has since helped cut the U.S. death rate from heart disease by 15%, from stroke...
Walter Jackson Bate '39, Lowell Professor of the Humanities, is recovering from a stroke he suffered last Tuesday and will be unable to lecture in English 140b, "The Age of Johnson," for the rest of the term. James T. Engell '73, assistant professor of English, who will take over Bate's classes, made the announcement to a stunned class yesterday...
Coglin notched another first-place finish in the 500 free, while Columbia secured the number one spot in the 200 breast-stroke...