Word: tooke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days later, during a 21/2-hour operation, doctors removed the Shah's gall bladder after finding gallstones both there and in the bile duct; the blockage had caused the Shah to turn yellow from jaundice. The surgeons also took lymph nodes from his neck and a slice from his liver, and afterward made a more serious announcement: the Shah was suffering from histiocytic lymphoma, a form of cancer of the lymphatic system. The disease also involved his spleen, but, said the hospital's physician in chief, Dr. Hibbard Williams, ''some potential for cure exists...
...itself, says the Kemeny report, reacted to the Three Mile Island mishap ''in an atmosphere of uncertainty,'' and took actions that were ''ill-defined...
Within hours of the shocking event, the South Korean Cabinet went into emergency session. Former Premier Choi Kyu Hah, who took over as Acting President, announced that most of the country had been placed under martial law. All 39,000 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea were put on alert. Early this week South Korea was calm, and most of the soldiers and tanks that had been patrolling Seoul had returned to barracks...
...state, and they absolutely don't want any Israeli ruling them; yet they do want open borders. We should start by giving a lot, by withdrawing the military administration, even though we get nothing in return. We would pull out our military forces, unless of course the P.L.O. took over and what we had planned as a peaceful region suddenly turned into a base for terrorism. Then, we would come back with a stronger force...
DIED. John K. Jessup, 72, chief writer of LIFE's editorial page for 22 years; of a heart attack; in Wilton, Conn. In 1935 Jessup was hired by Time Inc. Founder Henry R. Luce as a writer for FORTUNE. Five years later he took charge of TIME's business section, and in 1944 moved on to LIFE, where he presided over the only regular editorial page among Time Inc. publications. In that role, he wrote endorsements of seven presidential candidates and assessments of three wars. After his retirement in 1969, Jessup published The Ideas of Henry Luce...