Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Whatever tragedy the sight of Little Boy and Fat Man recalled, it was less personal than the recurrent horror that still afflicts former Army Air Corps Major Claude Eatherly, pilot of the reconnaissance plane that fingered Hiroshima for A-bomb attack. It was Eatherly. looking down from his 6-29, who found Hiroshima free of cloud cover and selected it as a target. Guilt feelings for his part in that historic flight left Eatherly suffering from "neurosis with psychotic manifestations," and he was discharged from the service. He has not yet recovered...
...Electrical Workers Union instead hoisted Fraginals on their shoulders and marched on the presidential palace shouting "Elections-down with Communism-out with fellow travelers." President Osvaldo Dorticos offered to talk to Fraginals if the demonstrators dispersed, and Fraginals told his men to hold union headquarters against possible police attack. Fraginals waited in the palace for hours to see the President, then left in disgust...
...veteran of 15 years with P.T.I., Lazarus scored his first big Congo scoop when he reported that Congolese troops were threatening to attack the residence of India's Rajeshwar Dayal, who is U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold's personal representative in the Congo. Spotting the story in the august Times of India-one of 200 Indian dailies that sub scribe to P.T.I.-Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru rose in India's Parliament to protest the hostile attitude of the Congolese government toward his countryman. But other Congo hands could find no evidence for Lazarus' sensational story...
...nagging chest pains of angina pectoris are a common symptom of coronary artery disease and may serve as early warning of an impending heart attack. They usually mean that the heart muscle, because of exertion or excitement, is demanding more blood than the disease-narrowed coronary arteries can supply. But angina can also come to the most relaxed and unexcited person. Last week, in the A.M.A. Journal, Los Angeles' Dr. Myron Prinzmetal reported that he and five colleagues have identified 23 cases of a strange angina that holds off while its victims shovel snow from their driveways or play...
Sometimes the victim" may convince his doctor that his ailment is painfully real by having an attack in the doctor's office. Then an electrocardiogram taken during the course of his pain will register telltale changes in the electrical activity of the heart. The ailment is often progressive; eleven of Dr. Prinzmetal's patients eventually suffered major heart attacks. In all these cases, says Dr. Prinzmetal, the attacks struck the exact area of the heart in which the gripping pains of angina had earlier occurred...