Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...credentials were impressive: B.S. from the University of Buffalo, M.S. from New York University and Ph.D. in geophysics from Columbia. Despite the fact that CBS required no special education to qualify for the job and his colleagues did not take kindly to the title, Harris insisted on being called "Doctor." Then, two weeks ago, the sky fell in on "Doctor Bob." The network learned Bob Harris through an anonymous letter that Harris had no more formal training than an Etruscan fulgurator and had lied about his degrees. In spite of a stream of protests from loyal listeners, he was fired...
When he is not saving the world from the likes of Doctor Octopus or the Vulture, Spider-Man, for instance, worries about more humdrum problems-like his dandruff and allergy attacks and how he is going to get a date. Dr. David Bruce Banner, the mild-mannered physicist, agonizes over his uncontrollable "hulkouts." This mix of fantasy and foibles zapped teenagers, and by the mid-'70s, Marvel had become the world's largest comic book company...
Medical School Capitation Grants. These have been made to medical schools on a per capita basis since 1972 so that they could provide financial aid for needy students to meet a nationwide doctor shortage. Now the shortage is past. But Administration efforts to cut funding for the program have been thwarted by Congress, which authorized payments of $144 million in the 1979 budget. For the 1980 budget, OMB proposes that the program be killed...
Irving Paul ("Swifty") Lazar, literary agent, when asked if he had any compunction about handling Richard Nixon's book: "No. Let us say a doctor is called in to save Hitler. Do you think he should save his life...
...play immortalized across the nation's sports pages by a UPI photographer, Harvard cornerback Billy Emper makes one of the single greatest plays ever in Harvard sports. With Dartmouth threatening to overturn the Crimson, Emper comes all the way across the field, leaps like a cross between Doctor J and an Acapulco cliff diver, and ticks away what seems like a certain long-bomb TD pass with his fingertip...