Word: earls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American lives each year. Most doctors believe that fats like cholesterol are primarily responsible for the gradual arterial buildup of the hard, fibrous deposits that characterize the condition. A University of Washington pathologist offers a startlingly different explanation. Relegating cholesterol to a secondary role in heart disease, Dr. Earl Benditt suggests that atherosclerotic deposits, or plaques, may be derived from a single abnormal cell that multiplies into tumor-like growths...
Historic Obstacles. In all, 54 of the firms were started in the past five years, a period that coincides with the Nixon Administration's Black Capitalism program. Many of the largest firms, however, neither got nor needed Government aid. Their success, says Black Enterprise Publisher Earl Graves, is evidence that some historic obstacles to black business ownership "have been overcome, [although] others remain maddeningly as barriers to real opportunity." Only twelve of the firms are in the South; most are in New York City, Chicago, Detroit and California...
...Earl Warren, LL.D., retired U.S. Chief Justice...
...President we ever had." Dwight Eisenhower's son John, a Nixon inlaw, composed a hearts-and-flowers allegory about "the Coach" whose team has committed errors "out of an excessive loyalty to him and the Institution." As it turns out, the man described was onetime Army Football Coach Earl H. ("Red") Blaik, and his dilemma was the 1951 cheating scandal at West Point that decimated his team. Eisenhower noted that Blaik rebuilt his team and retired with honor. The moral: "Is there any reason to believe that our nation's Coach, Richard Nixon, will do less...
...specific law-and-order resolve to "strengthen the peace forces as against the criminal forces." But Nixon can only choose the Justices; the power to decide cases remains with them. Simon clearly illustrates the different uses of that power in two fine and scrupulously fair portraits of Earl Warren and Warren Burger, the lookalike, think-apart Chiefs. Warren is shown cutting through the legalities to ask "But is it fair?" In his opinions Warren "galloped past the problems to his conclusion," Simon observes. He exemplified "honesty, fairness, patriotism and idealism...