Word: fatalism
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...June meetings with De Gaulle and Khrushchev are taking place: a summit meeting is not to make decisions or even to reassure American, French, or Russian opinion. It is to take soundings, to make positions clear, and to avoid the sort of misunderstandings that result in fatal policies. The three nations must expect nothing further from these talks than the knowledge that their leaders have had an opportunity to appraise each other...
...graduate magna cum laude of a ranking Jesuit institution, Fordham, I observe that the fatal intellectual schism that rends Catholic colleges has seldom been more openly revealed than in your story on Notre Dame's Father Hesburgh...
Unlike most administrators, Dr. Whippie never gave up research. He shared a Nobel Prize in 1934 for the basic discovery that simple anemia can be corrected with some meats and dried fruits, and that even pernicious anemia (previously always fatal) would yield to liver and its extracts. He has picked up many other honors - among them, having a digestive disease named...
...main problem of late for Coach Norm Shepard's squad has been pitching, which at the beginning of the year was considered a strong point. The hitting, been strong enough to make up for bases on balls and fatal defensive lapses...
...other starting pitcher is Dick Garibaldi, who was 3-1 with a 2.30 earned run average for last year's freshman team. Also a righthander, Garibaldi is faster than Yarbro but prone to wildness, which can be fatal in college baseball where so many runs are scored without the benefit of solid hits. The sophomore won one game on the training trip, and turned in an excellent relief turn. Against Tufts he survived a shaky first inning and went on to pitch four hitless innings before being removed for a pinchhitter during a rally...