Word: stroke
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John J. Conway, a former master of Leverett House, died on July 13 after a stroke...
Harvard heavyweight crew tasted victory against Yale for the 11th consecutive year, once again showing its power over the Elis. The race, deemed "perfect" by fabled coach Harry Parker (now 29-4 against Yale), was not decided until the final stroke...
DIED. MARCUS CHENAULT JR., 44, convicted murderer of Martin Luther King Jr.'s mother Alberta; after a stroke; in Riverdale, Georgia. On a Sunday in June 1974, Chenault rose from the front pew of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church and fatally shot the 69-year-old Mrs. King and church deacon Edward Boykin. Condemned to death, he was resentenced to life imprisonment, in part because the King family opposes capital punishment...
...With the stroke of a pen, President Clinton today forbade federal agencies to consider sexual orientation in granting security clearances. Though gay rights groups praised the move as a signal of respect, TIME's Douglas Waller says agencies are no longer "hung up" on the Cold War mentality that blackballed homosexuals for fear they would be blackmailed. "The CIA no longer screens for homosexuals," Waller says. "About five years ago, other agencies had a question on their polygraph tests about whether the person ever had homosexual tendecies, but people kept on tripping on the polygraph because...
Those participating in the lightweight crew's successful performance at the Henley include coxswain and captain Christopher J. Shulte '95, stroke Emans and other rowers Hammond, Ryan S. Wise '97, Andrew R. Wilson '96, Gregory M. Ruckman '96, Timothy M. Cullen '96, Field Ogden '95 and Edward A. Shergalis...