Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Almost two years ago, he suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed. He was shielded from the news that Marcello Caetano had replaced him as Premier. Several times the figurehead President, Américo Thomaz, approached him with the firm intention of telling him the truth, but could never find the words. Occasionally his housekeeper of more than 40 years, Dona Maria de Jesus Caetano Freire, would try to persuade him to "resign" because of his health, but each time he would reply: "I cannot go. There is no one else." When Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, dictator of Portugal...
...Aerojet-General Corp. from a tiny General Tire subsidiary into an aerospace giant (engines, rockets, bomb fuses); in Washington, D.C. Less than two days after Kimball's death, his wife Doris, 69, who wrote a syndicated Washington column under her maiden name of Doris Fleeson, died of a stroke...
Died. L. Wolf Gilbert, 83, composer of Ramona, The Peanut Vendor, Green Eyes, Lily of the Valley, Waitin' for the Robert E. Lee and dozens more; of a stroke; in Los Angeles...
This dreamlike visual overture is a stroke worthy of that renowned master of the cinematic art, Ingmar Bergman. And no wonder. The Hedda unveiled by the National Theater troupe last week is a special restaging by Bergman of his 1968 Stockholm production. In it, the play moves out of the sitting room and into the psyche. Bergman's stage is relatively bare and expressionistic, luridly lit when it is not dark. On the peripheries of many of his scenes, characters who are supposed to be offstage linger to eavesdrop on the proceedings that concern them. Somewhat eerily, this shifts...
...board has adopted some controversial proposals designed to make it difficult for merging companies to show an instant increase in their profits by the stroke of an accountant's pen. The most important reforms apply to a popular method of accounting for mergers known as pooling of interests. In pooling, an acquiring company writes the assets of another firm into its books at their original cost rather than their present value. Many conglomerates have later sold off a portion of such assets at a high price and reported the difference between that and the original cost...