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...dying." Actually Lady Lucan, 35, was not grievously wounded. When police searched her five-story town house, however, they found the body of the family's 29-year-old nanny stuffed into a canvas bag in the dining room; her head and body bore the marks of a fatal beating...
...bishops recently won from Rome an extended approval of simpler annulment procedures, which, among other things, no longer demand that a favorable decision by one matrimonial court always be confirmed by a second court. Moreover, more and more diocesan marriage tribunals recognize "psychic incapacity" in either partner as a fatal defect in the original marriage contract-an interpretation that has led to a sharp rise in the number of annulments granted. The liberality of the courts, however, can vary widely: in Brooklyn last year there were 575 annulments, in Boston only five...
...alive." He had finally, of course, yielded and spent twelve days in Memorial in late September and early October for treatment of phlebitis, the painful inflammation of the veins in his left leg that has bothered him off and on since 1964. It could at any time cause a fatal blood clot to travel upward in the bloodstream through his heart to the lungs...
...CURRENT "anti-corruption campaign" in South Vietnam may be the final and fatal development in the Thieu regime's two-year struggle for increased American military and economic aid. The struggle has been littered with deceptions--between Vietnamese officials and American intelligence groups, and between these groups and Congress...
...there was something there, but I didn't want to touch it." Her doctor dissuaded her from further delay. In the past, frightened women often waited as long as a year before reporting a suspicious lump to their doctors; if the tumor was malignant, that delay was usually fatal. Now, says Robbins, as a result of widespread educational campaigns by the American Cancer Society, the average time between discovery and a visit to the doctor is down to 2½ months-still a dangerously long though obviously shrinking interval...