Word: fatalism
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...This is a fatal day!" cried Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns. In London a melancholy joke went the rounds: "Not since 1066 has a Harold been so badly done in the eye by a Frenchman." To the exasperated British, it all recalled the fairy story of the princess who assigns to an unwelcome suitor a series of seemingly impossible tasks to perform-but when the suitor returns triumphant to claim her hand, the princess says: "Oh, I could never marry a man with red hair." Paris wags were retailing the joke about De Gaulle's new inferiority complex...
...another short but promising step toward control of viral infections by using IDU against herpes simplex, the virus of fever blisters, in cases where the sores had broken out on the upper lip, nostril or cheek. Doctors usually dismiss cold sores as trivial, but the virus may cause a fatal inflammation if it spreads to the brain; it can cause blindness if it reaches the eyes. Some of the British patients already had corneal infections...
...Brooklyn Eagle, reborn in October after a fatal Guild strike in 1955, jumped from 50,000 circulation to 325,000. The National Enquirer, a New York-based tabloid devoted to gossip and cheesecake, boosted its New York press run of 300,000 by one million. On commuter coach seats, the railroads laid daily news bulletins; the New Haven's throwaway prayerfully asked its passengers not to drop them on the floor. With what it called "characteristic spontaneity," Harvard's student newspaper, the Crimson, inundated Manhattan with 10,000 free copies of a "New York Edition"-2,000 more...
...began his reign by banishing his three bastard sisters to a convent, later blinded his nephew, Italy's 18-year-old King Bernard, for plotting revolt. But afterwards Louis fell into a remorse from which he never fully recovered. His son, Charles the Bald, was the prisoner of fatal impulsiveness: while revolt flickered along all France's frontiers, Charles took his army off to Italy to help the Pope fight the heathen Saracens, leaving affairs at home in the crafty hands of his bishop, Hincmar of Reims, who showed his contempt for the King in tracts secretly circulated...
...propaganda chief, Joseph Paul Goebbels." Wrote Joe Alsop in a column careless of any strain it might put on his friendship with the President: "The caves of the policymakers still too strongly resemble mushroom cellars. The danger is airlessness, in other words, and this airlessness can be too easily fatal, unless the caves are regularly ventilated by the winds of national doubt...