Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...etched Ethel Kennedy's many-faceted character with great care, pointing out the trivia, triumphs and tragedies of her rich life. Missing only was a reference to a personal relationship with the late Dr. Martin Luther King. Politically and psychologically, the two families had much in common, with sudden death to both fathers and husbands forming some kind of emotional tie. Thanks again for an excellent study of a complex, beautiful woman told by a writer who shows the rarest of gifts: loving concern for his subject...
...State Factor. Congress' sudden sympathy for reform reflects that growing public desire for a change. What shape a proposed amendment will finally take is not yet clear, however. Besides the House Judiciary Committee's plan for a direct election, there are also schemes to retain electoral votes in some form. One such plan would divide each state's electoral votes among the candidates according to the popular-vote breakdown. Another would elect members of the Electoral College by local districts...
...passing. No one expressed it better than one of France's most distinguished political writers, Pierre Viansson-Ponté: "Even among his opponents, even among those who campaigned relentlessly for the 'No,' even among those Frenchmen who could no longer stand his self-assurance and his pride, many felt a sudden pang when they thought of him on Sunday night. Thirty years on the stage, sometimes in the glare of the footlights, sometimes in silhouette, eleven years of absolutism, long tempered by his own resolve, later by anarchy, and this exit lacking greatness, the one word forever in his mouth...
Denied Admission. Barrientos seemed so likely to finish the remaining 15 months of his four-year term-a South American rarity-that his sudden death left the government in confusion. Vice President Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas, 43, hurried to Quemado Palace at the news -and was denied admission by guards who did not recognize him. "Let him in," barked an officer. "He is the President." Army Chief Alfredo Ovando, who with Barrientos had overthrown Victor Paz Estenssoro in 1964 (Barrientos won an election in 1966), was in Washington on a visit. The U.S. Air Force immediately offered him a C140...
...which 492 died. Interested in emotional response to bereavement, a Boston psychiatrist, Dr. Erich Lindemann, questioned relatives of the dead. He found that the human capacity to cope with problems, which is not innate but gained through experience, often falters in a time of crisis, like the sudden loss of a loved...