Word: fatalism
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...French physicians, led by Dr. Georges Mathé, got the idea from the emergency treatment improvised in 1958 for victims of a reactor accident in Yugoslavia-five nuclear scientists who got what would ordinarily have been a fatal overdose of radiation. Four were pulled through and are still doing well, thanks to injections of bone marrow. The radiation that almost killed the patients had made them able to accept other people's marrow cells, instead of rejecting them through nature's familiar "immune reaction...
Then, although he was kept in an atmosphere as nearly germ-free as possible, the patient got sick. He developed a usually fatal form of tuberculosis: evidently some bacilli had been dormant in his body, and the radiation had destroyed his defenses against infection. Somehow, today's miracle drugs pulled him through, and his new marrow is still manufacturing new cells...
...that authorities had also found a marked map, showing the course of the President's motorcade, in Oswald's rented room. 'It was a map tracing the location of the parade route,' the district attorney said, 'and this place [the Texas School Book Depository, a warehouse from which the fatal shots were fired] was marked with a straight line.' Mr. Wade said Oswald had marked the map at two other place, 'apparently places which he considered a possibility for an assassination.'" (New York Times...
...Forlorn. Murder at the Wall was inevitable during the Christmas interlude, for the arrangement by which Berlin's Communists had permitted 700,000 West Berliners into East Berlin during the holidays could only have its fatal temptations for Easterners who wished to reciprocate. In a sense, it was curious that more East Berliners did not try to break out. To hear the West Berliners tell it last week, the contrast they found with their living standards in West Berlin was appalling. Nowhere did the disparity between East and West come clearer than at the crossing points themselves. West Berliners...
...family packed up and left for England. Soon thereafter, they were unwillingly followed by the party's five organizers, a woman who had gone to the party in African dress, and eight white civil servants (including an assistant prisons commissioner) accused of having been there on the fatal night. Along with their families, the deportees were hustled abruptly onto London-bound airplanes-leaving behind them lost jobs and abandoned homes. What began as a celebration of "the end of the white man's burden" had become only a white man's hangover...