Word: doctoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Debate. Heads in the Kremlin also suffer pains whenever Moskva or Novy Mir, the leading journal in the liberal upsurge, comes out on the stands. The most recent issue of Novy Mir is running a memoir by Boris Pasternak, whose work has been suspect ever since he allowed his Doctor Zhivago to be published in the West (where it ultimately sold 4,500,000 copies). The sketch relates how Pasternak once wrote to Stalin with sarcastic thanks for sparing him the same official adulation accorded Vladimir Mayakovsky, one of the great heroes of Soviet literature, and thus saving him from...
Speaking at the Medical School, he defended his 1965 biography of Churchill. The book has been widely attacked as being in poor taste and violating the confidential relationship of a doctor and patient...
...former president of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons distinguished between "ordinary cases" in which "a doctor shouldn't tell" and those where a dead historical figure is involved. Moran said that one cannot follow "Winston's actions after the war without following his health...
...obsession with posterity, writing his memoirs after suffering his worst stroke so that history would not blame him for the future," Moran said. "His mental processes were rather suspect," and "he had no respect for science though he led a war that was won by science," the doctor added...
Because of the potential returns, all cattle breeders watch closely for just such "accidents." A completely unexpected one, for example, has turned up at Bueyeros, N. Mex., involving a six-year-old Hereford bull named Doctor Onward 211. The bull, it seems, has 14 ribs instead of the usual 13. More than that, it has passed on the mutation to many of its offspring. Of the 200 calves sired so far by Doctor Onward, 65 have been born with an extra rib-and thus an extra cut of valuable beef...