Word: victims
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Died. John J. O'Connor, 74, Tammany-sponsored Democratic Congressman from New York City (1923-38), chairman of the House Rules Committee (1932-38), who paid for his fight in the House against President Roosevelt's court-packing plan by being the only victim of F.D.R.'s "purge": he lost his seat in the 1938 election while the other two Representatives and nine Senators marked for defeat were reelected; in Washington...
...hands from Tory Marples to the Fabian Socialist intellectuals agree, Britain's prime social problem is not too many people but too many people in the wrong places. Like the U.S. itself, but more acutely, Britain in 1960 is a victim of "urban sprawl," the planless mushrooming of cities. Says Oxford Economist Colin Clark: "There is an area in central England, an oblong, coffin-shaped area, which includes more and more of our population ... If things go on as they are, we shall soon all be in the coffin...
...chance of escaping without paralysis and with his mind unimpaired. Dr. Clarke reported proudly but sadly that she had isolated the virus from Dr. Shope's blood. It was the first time scientists had been able to find it in the blood of a living human victim (usually they get it only after death, from brain and other nerve tissues). After ten days Dr. Shope inexplicably felt better, and has remained well...
Playing number one, captain Gerry Emmet was forced to produce a barrage of expert shots in order to overcome an opening 2-1 score. Second-ranked Tim Gallwey was another victim of the early Eph surge, although he lost the important third game by only one point...
...former first year graduate student in Economics, who had been confined at a Boston mental health center since last November, returned to commit suicide yesterday afternoon near his former room in Perkins Hall. The victim, John P. Skuba of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., a Rutgers graduate, died of a single shotgun wound in the head, according to Dr. John W. Wells, Jr., the University Health Services physican who pronounced him dead...