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...visibility at zero, tens of thousands of marooned workers had to spend the night in firehouses, hospitals and hotels. On the Calumet Expressway, 1,000 stranded motorists joined hands so that they would not get lost, snaked their way to nearby homes. A 50-year-old woman suffered a fatal heart attack on a stalled bus at 5 a.m. Friday. Not until six hours later could snowbound police remove her body...
Happy Christmas! On Dec. 16, 1962, Kerr suffered the illness that was to lead to a fatal heart attack two weeks later. Baker testified that at Christmas he received a call from Kerr, but at first could not believe that it was really the Senator. After all, said Bobby, "when Senator Johnson had his heart attack, the doctors insisted that he not make telephone calls." Making Kerr sound like the reformed Scrooge, Baker said the Senator told him that "he wanted to call me to let me know he loved me and my family. He said, 'Bob, I hope...
...With visitors from Ivy and Cottage and Tiger Inn he played the 'nice, unspoilt, ingenuous boy,' very much at ease and quite unaware of the object of the call. When the fatal night arrived early in March, he slid smoothly into Cottage with Alec Connage and watched his suddenly neurotic class with much wonder...
Many cases of meningitis are caused by viruses, but by far the most deadly is the bacterial form. The disease, which causes inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, often strikes without warning and can kill a husky young man within hours. Fatal in at least 10% of cases, it understandably causes public panic when it breaks out. Yet, little is known about it or about the best way to treat it. In fact, careful studies have only served to deepen some of its mysteries. But, as the University of Southern California's Dr. Paul...
Detection of any kind of highly infectious Salmonella* anywhere in the U.S.-particularly in a hospital-is enough to set disease detectives working overtime. Salmonellosis is a particularly severe diarrhea, often accompanied by vomiting, acute cramps and fever; and it can be fatal to feeble youngsters and oldsters. In the Boston case, it fell to Pediatrician David J. Lang to find out whatdunit. From case records, Dr. Lang concluded that while some of the children had been infected with S. cubana when they entered the hospital, others had picked up the infection there. That made the job tougher. Dr. Lang...