Word: fatalism
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...easily. Most of them lack facilities for extracting serum albumin, and would have to buy that. But if they do not ship across state lines, federal regulations cannot touch them. Meanwhile, the number of federally reported cases of serum hepatitis-a miserably lingering and debilitating liver disease, sometimes fatal-is running at double the 1967 rate, with 2,050 cases tallied so far this year...
...Republican rebels keep up the fight, the battle promises to be spirited but probably not fatal for the President's men, who need only a simple majority for confirmation. Not only do the Democrats have close to a 2-to-l majority in the Senate, but several Republicans, including Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, have also promised to vote for confirmation. Fortas, said Dirksen, is "a very able lawyer" with "sound" philosophy. He called Thornberry, a Congressman for more than 14 years, a "very solid citizen...
...received dummy capsules. So far, there have been 47 new heart attacks, 37 among the 700 men on the placebo, but only ten among those on clofibrate. Of 17 attacks among men who had previously had a heart attack, only three struck men on the drug. There were twelve fatal heart attacks, but only four among men taking clofibrate...
After five minutes, a brain deprived of blood-transported oxygen suffers irreversible and often fatal damage. Thus the doctors who tried desperately last week to save the life of Robert F. Kennedy were faced with overwhelmingly negative odds from the moment the Senator was wheeled, unconscious, from an ambulance into the city's Central Receiving Hospital...
Kennedy's call was unfamiliar to most Americans. The New York Senator asked for rapid political and economic change, law and order, a halt to war. By the fatal end of his run he was keeping his appeal relatively free of recrimination. His strongest words were reserved not for segregationists, economic malefactors, or regressive political bosses; he harpooned the national leaders of his own party. Richard Nixon was no more than the butt of a few jokes. More than "poor-mouthing," Kennedy evoked a new sense of self-awareness and self-realization--more like Teddy Roosevelt than any 20th century...