Word: dolans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From the moment it was learned that William Schroeder would become the second man to receive a permanent artificial heart, TIME Correspondent Barbara Dolan became a kind of paramedic-in-training, reading literature about the operation and the man who performed it, Dr. William DeVries. She sought second, third, even fourth opinions from experts in the field. Yet she never lost sight of the human drama. At briefings for reporters at Humana Hospital Audubon in Louisville, she found herself "slipping in questions about the decor of Schroeder's hospital room between questions about whether there was too much fluid...
Since becoming a TIME correspondent in 1981, Dolan has covered such major science stories as the implications of nuclear power and the dilemma of toxic waste...
...efforts to save Bill Schroeder are in stark contrast to a story she reported last spring on families whose religious beliefs led them to refuse medical care for their dying children. To follow every step of Schroeder's progress, Dolan, along with TIME'S Teresa Barker, has been almost as closely tethered to the Humana press center as the patient is to the machinery that powers his artificial heart. During her long reporting vigil, she has found herself frequently checking her own vital signs. "After six days of nonstop reporting," says she, "most of the journalists covering...
...Republican National Convention this summer in Dallas, National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC) Chairman Terry Dolan announced plans one morning for a fund-raiser to be held at the ranch of multibillionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt. Included in the press packet was a "Statement of Principle," which read in part: "We believe that if one is indeed hungry, there is always honorable work. We believe that aid should be forthcoming to the truly troubled, by a body most likely to know him by name...
PREACHERS. The young Turks have formed a wary alliance with the crusaders and polemicists of the New Right. These include Richard Viguerie, the guru of direct-mail fund raising and publisher of Conservative Digest, Paul Weyrich of the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, and Terry Dolan of the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC). Their avatar is Senator Helms of North Carolina. But one of the New Right leaders concedes, "We could go with Jack Kemp. We like him. But we still have to see whether he has the guts...