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...feels that Sabin went far beyond his data in claiming that herpes viruses account for 25% of human tumors. Dr. Bernard Roizman, professor of microbiology at the University of Chicago, believes that some of the experiments were oversimplified and lacked controls. But none of the researchers is willing to dismiss the indictment against herpes. All have found circumstantial evidence linking the viruses to certain human cancers. But all feel that they need better proof before they can find herpes guilty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Premature Indictment? | 9/30/1974 | See Source »

...Nixon's troubles were still far from over last week, so were those of six of his former White House and political associates. As expected, their attorneys pleaded with Judge John J. Sirica to dismiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Fallout from Ford's Rush to Pardon | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

...defense hopes that Flanagan will never get to explain his "obvious crux" before a jury, and it has submitted a barrage of preliminary motions in an effort to have the case thrown out of court. In a lengthy motion to dismiss, filed July 22, the lawyers say that the indictment is "vague," hence unconstitutional, because, they allege, it leaves their clients in the dark as to just what they are charged with...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Fetal Researchers Go Under the Law | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

...easy to use the South as a shield against Harvard, an excuse for failures. It's easy, at first, to go back home and feel comfortable and successful there, and to dismiss as ignorant people from the North who will tell you how backward and racist the South...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Don't Forget A Winter Coat | 9/1/1974 | See Source »

...will find that you cannot, and should not, take comfort in the possibility that because of the unequal male-female ration here, you may in fact be 2.5 times smarter than your Harvard classmate. The people who actually believe things like that are aggravated Harvard undergraduates who will dismiss you as a snotty-Ali McGraw-bitch. Worse, though, are the professors who would never even entertain thoughts about your intelligence. With the same lack of awareness that leads them to believe that Radcliffe students pay a different tuition than Harvard students, they have never fully absorbed the fact that Harvard...

Author: By Emily Wheeler, | Title: It's Tough to Be a Woman at Harvard | 9/1/1974 | See Source »

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