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This is the way Eva's world ends: not with a bang but a simper. She is an aged immigrant, almost totally withdrawn from husband and family, living immersed in memory and in imaginary dialogues with great literary and political figures of history. Stricken by cancer, she is taken on a farewell visit to children and grandchildren, reaching a final resting place in the San Francisco pad of a hippy granddaughter. Eva finds in the girl an echo of her own past, and she makes some inarticulate efforts to pass on her heritage. But as played by Lila Kedrova...
...doctors based their conclusions on interviews with 225 people who were stricken with Hodgkin's disease between 1973 and 1977. The 225 victims represented 86 per cent of all patients with the disease between ages 15 and 39 in Boston and in Worcester, Mass. The results from the patients were compared with the experience of 447 randomly selected people...
...Forlani's tottering four-party center-left coalition, which has been in office less than three months. The government was already hounded by discontent on all sides as Italy once again descended into a trough of multiple troubles. In southern Italy, 200,000 people shivered in the quake-stricken mountains, their suffering compounded by a corrupt, discredited bureaucracy. A high-ranking judge remained in the hands of his terrorist kidnapers. A Cabinet officer had resigned in a spreading oil-tax scandal which may involve $2.2 billion. The national mood, and respect for political authority, was probably at its lowest...
Canada's Terry Fox, for his run across Canada on one healthy leg before being stricken a second time with cancer...
...raised people's hopes," said Giuseppe Zamberletti, who heads the government relief operation. "A massive evacuation would have been more likely to take place had we failed to bring adequate help." With that, the government moved thousands of campers, trailers and even some railroad cars into the stricken region. By week's end some 12,000 homeless victims of the earthquake had been transferred from tents to more substantial dwellings-including, for a lucky few, prefabricated houses...