Word: cray
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gadfly has drawn blood. William Cray of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association accuses him of zealotry: "He tends to exploit every negative aspect of drug therapy to scare the consumer." Still, many Washington officials are beginning to develop a wary respect for Wolfe. Admits Donald Kennedy, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration: "Sometimes when I've been annoyed at Sid, I realized that I was really annoyed at myself for not seeing a problem to be as serious as I should have at first look. In the past the tendency was not to question the fruits of technology...
...true, and that was how I came to be riding all night from Connecticut down to Tennessee with a busload of middle-aged women hell-bent on reaching the graveside of their dead king on the first anniversary of his death. That was how I came to meet Janey Cray, who swooned over Elvis when she was young and sweet, and who now spends sleepless nights in the cab of a tractor-trailer rig, squinting out over burning cigarettes at interstate highways as she roams from city to city, transporting sides of beef and chocolate-covered cherries in a refrigerated...
...about 3 a.m. after the songs had died away and most of the passengers' heads were nodding over their chests, that I got to know Janey Cray. I was sitting awake, thinking of my next day's story, and she was sitting awake in the seat across the aisle, watching the road. She was a grandmother, I found out, and she was traveling with three friends--a neighbor, a sister, and her best friend since second grade. She was overweight, she had deep crows' feet around her eyes, and her throat rasped when she laughed. But her clothes were...
...balcony of her room, Janey Cray, the grandmother, the truck driver, the die-hard Elvis fan, looked out over the vast, dark expanse of Memphis. Then she mixed another drink, and settled back into her chair...
Five Harvard undergraduates are working on the campaign: Mark Roosevelt '79, campaign manager; Jonathan H. Alter '79, press secretary; Dewitt C. Jones '79, issues adviser; Pierce Cray '79, finance committee member; and Peter Slavin '79, field coordinator...