Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, Chalmers Hamill was having a fit out in Colorado. He had taken a late flight with Dorothy back to her training site in Denver. When he got off the plane and picked up a New York Times, he almost had a heart attack. He suddenly saw nine years of hard work and personal sacrifice going down the drain because his daughter had spoken out and broken the sacred rule. It didn't matter that what she had said happened to be the truth...
...will turn out to have his share of them. Liberals, especially, have begun to question his positions. They are skeptical of his convictions and ready to paint him into a conservative corner. The candidate is braced for the onslaught. "The only way to avoid that kind of attack," he shrugs, "is to lose...
...colleague Richard C. Lewontin '50, Agassiz Professor of Biology and a member of Science for the People, which opposes Wilson. "They say that I believe in a rigidly determined system and that I am therefore making a defense of the status quo." Wilson says he thinks that such an attack is levelled at a "straw man"--in fact he believes that only some fraction of human behavior, maybe about 10 per cent, is genetically determined, while all other differences can be culturally explained. He says his views reflect the notion that "God has not entirely abandoned man to the caprice...
Died. John Martin Murtagh, 64, New York State Supreme Court Justice who was preparing his ruling on whether the state's special prosecutor, Maurice Nadjari, had the authority to investigate the New York Democratic Party chairman Patrick Cunningham; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A tireless, methodical, thorough worker, Democrat Murtagh presided over Republican Nadjari's corruption cases for three years and repeatedly clashed with the prosecutor, whose slashing, unorthodox tactics caused Murtagh to throw out a number of pre-jury indictments...
Died. Frank Schoonmaker, 70, tastemaking oenologist and writer whose pioneering articles and books educated American palates and drew the world's attention to the then unheralded wines of California's Napa and Sonoma counties; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Schoonmaker dropped out of Princeton University in 1923 because he felt it had little to teach him, and on a visit to France began his study of vintages in the household of a wine merchant. In 1933, Harold Ross of The New Yorker commissioned Schoonmaker to write a landmark ten-article series on the wines of Europe that...