Word: conway
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Chase shows a cheeky sense of the medium's absurdities and a fearless inclination to bite the hand that bred him. With help from Comedian Tim Conway, a few famous jocks, some dancing poodles and "$12,500 worth of extras," Chase takes puckish potshots at TV sports coverage, presidential press conferences, variety and game shows and, of course, advertising. At times, the old Saturday Night wit is in top form. In a takeoff on Let's Make a Deal, one hyperexcited contestant trades a husband, children and an Arizona home for what's behind the door...
Died. William Cardinal Conway, 64, Roman Catholic Primate of All Ireland and 112th pastoral descendant of St. Patrick; after surgery for removal of his gall bladder; in Armagh, Northern Ireland. Born in Belfast, Conway was spiritual leader for Ireland's 3.5 million Catholics, including Ulster's 500,000. The tall, husky Cardinal condemned the civil turmoil in Northern Ireland, calling both Protestant and Catholic terrorists "monsters...
...doubts became public knowledge when the London Sunday Times reported that Burt's co-authors of the later twin studies-Margaret Howard and J. Conway-are not listed in London University records and are unknown to 18 of Burt's closest colleagues. The revelation is crucial: the two women were presumably Burt's field investigators on the twin research at a time when the psychologist was becoming feeble and deaf. It thus seems increasingly possible that the women never existed, that their investigations were never carried out and that Burt invented them and their reports...
Since the Sunday Times story, a Manchester professor has recalled meeting a Margaret Howard in the 1930s, but the only other traces of Conway and Howard are their signatures on reviews in the late 1950s published in the British Journal of Statistical Psychology. Those writings, mostly attacking Burt's enemies, stopped around the time Burt stepped down as the journal's editor. Says Princeton Psychologist Leon Kamin, an opponent of Burt in the heredity-intelligence debate: "It was a fraud linked to policy from the word go. The data were cooked in order for him to arrive...
...twin studies were among papers stuffed into half a dozen tea chests and later destroyed. Many of his professional articles do not give primary data, referring readers to unpublished reports. Some of those reports, says Kamin, are at least as hard to find as are Howard and Conway...