Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should be done with Eichmann's body. A former inmate of a Nazi death camp explained, "We cannot profane the Holy Land by burying that Satan here. But if we send the body to Argentina or Germany, neo-Nazis will make a shrine of his grave." His solution: "Dump the corpse in midocean, or send it into outer space...
Every college graduate recalls a favorite professor whose words and ideas ring across the years. But few old grads even write to old profs, much less dump $10,000 in their laps. Such is the unique gesture of Chicago Lawyer Leo T. Norville, 56. His startled beneficiary: History Professor Preston W. Slosson, 68, who in 40 years at the University of Michigan taught 18,000 students. Says Norville: "It was a token of affection, esteem and appreciation for what he tried to teach...
...Maxwell Finland (Harvard Medical School): "The argument that the practicing physician is the only one who can determine efficacy . . . is an invitation to all manufacturers to dump into the hands of busy practitioners any and all types of good and bad drugs and devices, and let them learn, at the expense and peril of their patients, whether they are any help. With over 200,000 physicians and their patients as potential prey, the result would be untold harm...
Wagner's announcement came after three months of hemming and hawing about his own candidacy and his choice of running mates. The mayor had been under heavy pressure from dissident camps about his ticket. Democratic reformers led by Eleanor Roosevelt and Herbert Lehman wanted Wagner to dump both City Council President Abe Stark and Controller Lawrence Gerosa as incompetent. New York's Liberal Party-a powerful third force in New York politics-also demanded that Stark and Gerosa be left off the ticket. But Wagner was under equally strong pressure from regular party leaders to keep...
...staggeringly beautiful, something between Rubens and Renoir." But last week, after the trust managers had sold her five-story, Fifth Avenue Manhattan town house, the 52-year-old ex-showgirl refused to budge, complained: "I can't leave here. They might come in without my knowing it and dump everything out on the street." Denying that she had consented to the sale last February, Alice Lurcy stubbornly sat out court action. Said she vaguely: "I don't know what I'll do if Surrogate Cox orders me to leave my beautiful home...