Word: fatalism
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...hyaline membrane disease that kills at least 25,000 infants every year (among them: Patrick Bouvier Kennedy) and the heart attacks that are fatal to 500,000 adult Americans seem poles apart as subjects for medical research. But doctors half the world away from each other have just implicated the same reflex as a possible cause of both killers: a primitive response apparently built into the human body to protect it against asphyxiation...
...DeBakey went H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor to have a potentially fatal, grapefruit-sized aneurysm removed from his abdominal aorta (TIME, Dec. 25). And it was to Dr. DeBakey and Houston's Methodist Hospital that the TV producers of the U.S. and Europe turned a month ago when they wanted to let 300 million televiewers, aided by Comsat's Early Bird, watch an exquisitely delicate heart operation, with the surgeon literally holding a life in his hand. To Dr. DeBakey both Presidents Kennedy and Johnson turned when they needed a man to head committees and commissions to recommend...
...Sugrue ruled that the New Jersey Turnpike Authority derived "a certain amount of benefit" from Maintenance Man Richard Marshall's services as a player on the Authority's softball team. Judge Sugrue awarded Marshall's widow and four children $38,130.04 in compensation for the fatal "on-the-job" heart attack he suffered while giving his all for his turnpike employers in a softball game last summer...
Also Food. Dr. Chafetz has no use for bluenoses, legislators and judges who equate drinking with crime. He doubts that even fatal auto accidents involving drunken drivers are primarily the result of drinking: in most cases, he says, there is an underlying mental disturbance...
...victory were the result of a fix, of Walcott's utter ineptitude, of the winds of fate, or of Clay's prayers to Allah, I don't know. The only result of the fight not wrapped in enigmas is the obvious fact that boxing may have suffered a fatal blow last night...