Word: attacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...announcement that Menachem Begin, hawkish leader of the victorious right-wing Likud coalition in the election a fortnight ago, had been rushed to a Tel Aviv hospital complaining of chest pains. That raised doubts about whether Begin, 63, who had suffered a serious heart attack only two months ago, was well enough to head a new government. The Likud leader, however, quickly recovered from what turned out to be exhaustion and a mild bout of angina pectoris, and astonished his countrymen by dropping bombshell No. 2: he said that former Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, a longtime Labor Party maverick...
Died. Alfred Schild, 55, founder of the Center for Relativity Theory at the University of Texas whose work advanced understanding of such concepts as the formation of galaxies, alternative theories of gravitation, and quantum mechanics; of an apparent heart attack; in Downers Grove...
Died. Lou Gordon, 60, flamboyant Detroit television commentator whose questioning brought Governor George Romney's response that he had been "brainwashed" while visiting Viet Nam and led to his withdrawal from the 1968 Republican presidential race; of an apparent heart attack; in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Although reviled by some for his personal abrasiveness, Gordon gained renown for his exposes of local corruption...
...talk about running with a special fervor, and so do their doctors. "Man was made a two-legged animal because he was meant to use his legs," says Dr. J.V. Shivde, one of Dr. Nequin's assistants. "We don't know what one thing causes heart attacks, but two of the risk factors are inactivity and psychological tension. Jogging is an answer for both. We can't say that exercise arrests heart disease, though there is some evidence that it may. But at least with exercise, if you have a heart attack, you have a greater chance...
Critics of the proposal have focused their attack on the consumer advocates' implicit assumption that there is some uniform consumer interest that the agency could identify and represent. Of course, in many cases this assumption is unjustified. Consumers have many interests, some of which are mutually exclusive; for instance, there is often a trade-off between low prices and safety. How the agency would strike an appropriate balance between these conflicting values is a mystery to everyone but Nader, who seems to have an opinion on everything, and to believe that his views and those of the "consumer" are necessarily...