Word: fatalism
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...headquarters, Farmer Cecil Kling, 54, was so riled by the success of Negro candidates that he pulled a shotgun on four Negro farmhands and declared: "I'm gonna shoot you all." When one of the Negroes, Samuel Carroll, 53, tried to plead with him, Kling triggered a fatal shotgun blast into Carroll's heart. "I oughta kill all of you," snapped Kling, then drove into town and gave himself up. That night, 400 angry Negroes demonstrated in Fayette, but Evers kept them from rioting by arguing that "the only people we would hurt would be ourselves...
...from most other vitamins in a second important respect: too much of it is as bad as too little. Severe or long-term excess causes chalky calcium deposits in arteries, notably the aorta, and in the kidneys, with stone formation and loss of kidney function. Eventually, this can be fatal. To guard...
Jazz, which every few years is pronounced dead and then somehow revives, has really begun to develop fatal symptoms lately. Its traditional styles are suffering from hardening of the arteries, its avant-garde is in the grip of a frenzied obscurity, and its fever chart at the box office is down, down, down. But now, just as the mourning is starting in earnest, jazz is getting a vital transfusion from the people who seemed to be helping to dig its grave-the rock 'n' rollers...
...sheer technical bravado almost saves the movie. But ultimately, Privilege is less a picture than a frame. One problem is that Jones, who is a real-life rock-'n'-roll performer but certainly no actor, offers no clue to the charismatic character who could exert such fatal appeal. And Jean Shrimpton, Britain's most celebrated model in the pre-Twiggy days, merely matches him mumble for mumble...
...AEROSPACE. At recently merged McDonnell Douglas Corp., an after-tax loss of $41 million for Douglas wiped out a $28 million profit for McDonnell. North American Aviation, hit by adverse readjustment of its space contracts, including the Apollo project, following the fatal fire at Cape Kennedy, reported a 59% drop in earnings for the quarter...