Word: alsop
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...publication two years ago of Professor Richard Herrnstein's Atlantic Monthly article about I.Q. testing and genetic-racial differences in human intelligence carried the discussion of these issues into the political arena. The article by Joseph Alsop (the Globe, August 27) and some comments in the September 3 issue of Time magazine have focused new attention on the subject...
...begin open hearings at once into the circumstances of the tapes' being or nonbeing and inspired a new surge of protest telegrams, which deluged official Washington with fresh demands that Nixon must leave office. Even some of Nixon's least likely critics turned against him. Columnist Joseph Alsop, ardent champion of the President's foreign policies, said that he must resign. Howard K Smith, ABC-TV'S highly independent commentator, declared that the tapes revelation "deepens suspicion inevitably that there has been a cover-up all along and it is still going on." Nixon, he said...
Separated. Joseph Alsop, 62, starchy, patrician, syndicated Washington columnist and brother of Newsweek's Stewart Alsop; and Susan Mary Alsop, 54; after twelve years of marriage, no children...
Both the Arizona action and the British poster may help protect non-smokers from cigarette pollution. But if the experience of Columnist Joseph Alsop is any indication, neither is likely to have much impact on those now addicted to nicotine. Alsop, who is struggling to kick a four-pack-a-day habit, wrote earlier this month that matters requiring calculation, learning and judgment became "inordinately difficult or downright impossible" without the comfort of tobacco. Scores of readers wrote to tell him that they, too, suffered from what Alsop called the "incompetence syndrome," and were unable to do almost everything from...
Fascinated by their response, Alsop asked Science Writer Edward Brecher, author of Licit and Illicit Drugs (Consumers Union, 1972), if doctors had studied this problem. Brecher, whose book describes tobacco as "one of the most physiologically damaging substances used by man," cited serious psychiatric and metabolic reports on the subject. For many smokers, psychological needs combine with nicotine addiction to produce a powerful dependency. Beyond that, he could empathize with Alsop. Brecher gave up cigarettes for 14 months, but started smoking again when he found that he simply could not work without them...