Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instructions are clear and simple. Do not use public transport on Aug. 21. Do not patronize shops or buy newspapers. Stay away from cinemas, restaurants and nightclubs. Decorate gravestones and national monuments. Wear black arm bands. At the stroke of noon, stop working, walking, driving and every other activity for precisely five minutes...
Died. Russ Morgan, 65, pop-music composer and big-band leader in the 1930s and '40s; of a stroke; in Las Vegas. The son of a Pennsylvania coal miner, Morgan played trombone and piano to earn his ticket out of the pits, in 1935 formed his own orchestra featuring the wah-wah sound of muted trombones and such hits as So Tired, and Somebody Else Is Taking My Place...
Died. George Preston Marshall, 72, owner of the National Football League's Washington Redskins and one of the game's most successful showmen; of a stroke; in Washington. For a mere $150 in 1932, Marshall bought the franchise for the floundering Boston Redskins, soon moved the team to Washington, where he gave the fans Slingin' Sammy Baugh at quarterback and dazzling marching bands at halftime. The football was sometimes very good (divisional titles in 1940, '42, '43, '45)-and the show always was-to the extent that Marshall boasted he never had a losing...
Rose Kennedy has lost four of her nine children in violence: John and Robert assassinated, Joseph Jr. killed in World War II, Kathleen dead in a plane crash. Another daughter, Rosemary, is mentally retarded and Joseph Sr., now 80, has been incapacitated for eight years by a stroke. She reserves much of her time for her ailing husband, who is now no longer able to come downstairs...
...rate Spitz is going, Counsilman reckons he may get another chance to stroke for Olympic gold-even though he will be 22, ancient by swimming standards, when the Munich games roll around. Says Counsilman: "He should just be hitting his peak by 1972." Spitz, of course, wants nothing more than another try. "Everything I do now is geared to 1972," he says. "I don't want another Mexico City...