Word: ervin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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REMEMBER OL' FRED D. THOMPSON? No? You don't remember good ol' Frayud, Howard Baker's boy? The minority counsel on the Ervin Committee, you don't remember...
...tilted sharply in favor of this organic explanation of the disease. At the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Anaheim, Calif., two California scientists reported that they had isolated a chemical from the blood of schizophrenics that may be at the root of their illness. Drs. Frank Ervin of U.C.L.A.'s Neuropsychiatric Institute and Roberta Palmour of the University of California at Berkeley described the substance as a variant of a peptide-a short chain of amino acids-that belongs to a family of newly discovered opiate-like brain hormones called endorphins...
...Ervin and Palmour emphasize that they have no firm proof that the molecule, which they have dubbed leu-endorphin, is the cause of-or even related to-schizophrenia. But if it is, its removal offers possible treatment for the illness, which accounts for nearly 20% of the mental patients in U.S. hospitals...
...Raoul Berger was catapulted from obscurity to national prominence by providing an important part of the constitutional interpretations leading to Richard Nixon's downfall. His book Impeachment, begun in 1969 with only the problem of bad federal judges in mind, happened to roll off the presses during the Ervin committee hearings in 1973; it forcefully argued that proof of a criminal violation was not required to remove a federal official. A year later the Harvard-based Berger published Executive Privilege, which demolished the President's cited historical precedents for withholding evidence...
...that he might be right for that calling. Fletcher jokingly says, "I'm going to become a Christian bum," but adds seriously it may be best to be in a position to speak for Christ in some career other than the ministry. He points to the great impact Sam Ervin had when he quoted scripture during the Watergate hearings...