Word: everette
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they have been helped by the substance. In Texas, explains anti-Laetrile Lobbyist Ace Pickens, "legislators said, 'Oh hell, if it doesn't do them any harm and if it gives them any hope, why not let them have it?' " Otherwise, says Arizona State Representative Herb Everett, "we are making criminals out of those who want to use Laetrile." Most potent of all has been the plea that people who are dying from cancer should be free to try even worthless cures. The New York Times agrees, and California Governor Jerry Brown believes that people should...
Wald's dedication to science goes from the slightly mundane--his insistence on doing all lab work himself, forgoing the use of technicians and assistants--to what Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science, says is some of the most inventive scientific thinking--Wald's use of biochemistry to redirect theories on the origin of the universe. At all levels of understanding, science, for Wald, is a universal language. "I am deeply glad to be a scientist because I think that human beings have always and everywhere asked the same questions," he says...
Despite his troubles, DiCarlo seemed unconcerned as election day approached. The Boston Globe predicted he would win. But the improbable happened: DiCarlo lost by 2,589 votes to a relatively unknown, 24-year-old alderman from Everett named Frank Mastrocola, who had pressed one issue hard -that his opponent had betrayed the public's trust. Said a chastened DiCarlo: "The people of this district have spoken and that's what counts...
...performer in the country. She has appeared at benefits in support of the Equal Rights Amendment in St. Louis, Cleveland and Denver, and she has campaigned for Bella Abzug and Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso. A few years ago, she was appearing on the Dick Cavett Show when Actor Chad Everett referred to his wife as his property-along with his horse and dog. She stunned even herself by walking off the show...
Increasingly this new skepticism is spreading even among professionals in the world of Sci-Tech. Indeed, it could be heard conspicuously last week as 4,200 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science gathered in Denver for their annual brainstorming. Arthur Kantrowitz, head of Avco Everett Research Laboratory Inc. in Everett, Mass., came plugging, once again, for the creation of a "science court" that might help sort out "facts from values" in controversies that have been multiplying in the atmosphere of question and dispute. One of the speakers in Denver, Science Historian June Goodfield, a visiting professor...