Word: danae
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dana Wilson, 41, a lumber company manager in Mehama, Ore., had been taking drugs to control the occasional irregular beating of his heart following a massive heart attack. But the treatment proved unsuccessful; one day several months after the attack, his heart began to race, reaching 250 beats per minute before returning to normal. Doctors turned to an innovative method of studying arrhythmias. They threaded electrodes into his heart and electrically stimulated the tissue to induce the erratic beating. Trying different drugs, they learned that none would be helpful in treating Wilson's condition. But by moving the electrodes...
...boats and food. He has dabbled in gold mines and gasohol equipment. He asked to join his father's former radio syndication service and he tested the waters in politics. Last December the President's adopted son, 36, signed on as a vice president for marketing at Dana Ingalls Profile, Inc., of Burbank, Calif., a 35-employee aerospace supplier. Last week he said angrily he would abandon that career, after being criticized for using his father's name to seek defense contracts...
...know that, with my father's leadership at the White House, this countries [sic] Armed Services are going to be rebuilt and strengthened. We at Dana Ingalls Profile want to be involved in that process." Though Reagan's pitch was not illegal, it struck at least one ranking bureaucrat as "a dubious sort of behavior." Added J. Jackson Walter, director of the Office of Government Ethics of Michael's name-dropping: "Why doesn't he just use a hammer...
...Later the same day Speakes announced that Presidential Counsel Fred Fielding would advise all four Reagan children on possible conflicts of interest, a procedure said to have been planned but not carried out before the President was shot March 30. Michael Reagan then bitterly announced that he would quit Dana Ingalls. He added he was "tired of having to explain his actions" to the media, and worried: "Now, wherever I go, peopie are going to be afraid to do business with me because they don't know if the press is going to come in." Then, in a characteristic...
Halberstam was a physician and author in Washington, D.C. While at college, he was associate managing editor of The Crimson, a member of the crew team, and a History concentrator. He won the Dana Reed prize for undergraduate writing, and graduated with honors...