Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover story, The Plight of the U.S. Patient, TIME correspondents across the nation found that in many cases their own experiences with medicine and medical men belonged in their files. From Portland, Ore., where he came down with symptoms suggesting Hong Kong flu, Reporter David Rorvik wired a wry account of the difficulties of locating a hotel doctor. He dialed room service by mistake, and his vociferous complaints were interpreted as a slur on the hotel's cuisine. Washington Correspondent David Lee made the mistake of lighting a cigarette while he posed a question about preventive medicine...
...Alan C. Rankin, president of Indiana State University, was disturbed because his burgeoning school was encroaching on the Tenderloin. Brand-new high-rise dormitories now stand across the street from battered old brownstones that house the brothels. He was further irritated by the local conviction that students account for a substantial amount of the prostitutes' business. Rankin declared: "My position is, let's enforce the law," and, with the school paper's support, he began pressuring the mayor to clean up the city...
City dwellers glumly accept crime as an inevitable hazard. Despairing of ever recovering stolen goods or bringing criminals to account, they decide that silence is the better part of wisdom. After his car was ransacked, Long Island's Democratic Congressman Allard...
...Interstate Commerce Commission deserves every one of its superlatives: it is the oldest and largest of the federal regulatory agencies - and the most ineffective. Overseeing some 18,000 companies involved in transport by truck, rail, waterway and pipeline, the ICC regulates industries that account for 20% of the gross national product...
...memory hole.' " Years of contacts in Russia, where he served six years as a reporter, and the information thaw that set in after Stalin's death, finally permitted Salisbury to accumulate the records, diaries and interviews from which he shaped this massive and horrifying account...