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...Fatal Appointment...
...Senator Jack Kennedy's huge 869,000-vote plurality clearly cut across all religious lines. In Pennsylvania Democrat David Lawrence became the first Catholic Governor in history. In California Catholic Pat Brown was elected Governor by a landslide. And in Minnesota, where Catholicism had long been considered a fatal handicap outside St. Paul and Minneapolis, Catholic Eugene McCarthy beat Republican Senator Edward Thye, a Lutheran (with a Catholic wife), by 57,000 votes. In New York, where the Catholic vote is supposed to be powerful, the voters pulled a switch, defeated Democratic Senatorial Candidate Frank Hogan, a Catholic. Said...
...JASON: Fatal, vile sorceress, Cruel woman, whom I have cast out, go away, go away from here! Your punishment awaits...
From Mary's 104° fever and other signs, Field Physician Garfield Fred Burkhardt suspected meningitis, probably tuberculous-a disease that was invariably fatal until twelve years ago. He plunged a needle into her back and tapped the spinal fluid. Its high cell content buttressed his fears. While Navajo Nelson Bennett worked the field radio to alert the Navajo medical center at Fort Defiance for an emergency admission, Dr. Burkhardt gave Mary Grey-Eyes a massive penicillin injection. This would combat the infection if pneumococci, rather than tubercle bacilli, were the cause...
TOUGHER PILOT CHECK by the CAA will mean more surprise inspections of airlines' blind-flying skill. Latest check: Northeast Airlines pilots, involved in three fatal crashes in bad weather in 21 months. Of first 95 Northeast pilots tested for instrument flying, five failed...