Word: attacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spreading the word in Washington that the upcoming improvements were more worrisome to him than the advanced U.S. ICBM-the M-X- which still exists only on paper, or the cruise missile, which has yet to be deployed and is too slow to be used in a surprise attack...
Throughout Frost's Watergate assault, the old Nixon mannerisms inject an uneasy déja vu. The most discomforting is his reflexive, contrived smile, flashed?when he is under harsh attack. Sometimes his face freezes impassively, his eyelids fluttering. He stutters a bit under stress, and his syntax breaks down. At certain moments his lips shut tight, his mouth seems to shrink...
...trial cost an estimated $15 million, including nearly $7 million for the heavily guarded fortress that was specially built in Stuttgart to hold the defendants and conduct their trial. The building-girded by high steel fences, roofed with bombproof metal mesh and patrolled by policemen and attack dogs -was just one example of judicial overkill. Because of flagrantly injudicious behavior by the main trial judge (who was removed in January) and highly questionable bugging of the defendants and their lawyers during the trial, the verdict is sure to be appealed to higher courts...
...Bypasses. Mamiya is modest about his achievements, but others are vocal. One articulate testimonial to the surgeon's skill is Buck Buchwach, the Honolulu Advertiser's executive editor, whose case has drawn much attention to the advanced state of surgery in Hawaii. "Bucky" had had two heart attacks, the first at age 37, and a two-bypass graft at a famous U.S. mainland center. Results were unsatisfactory. Barely surviving a third attack a year ago, he was referred to Mamiya, who put in seven bypasses. At 56, Buchwach now works with "front page" drive and even feels good...
...study published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Gerald Phillips reported that among male heart attack victims up to age 44, there is a pronounced increase in the blood levels of estradiol-one of the estrogens. But their levels of testosterone, the major male sex hormone, remain normal...