Word: everly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there were rumors that Ethel and her children would leave Hickory Hill. Nothing could have seemed more plausible. Why not cast off painful associations and turn away from Washington politics? Why not, in fact, spend some time in international travel and socializing? Ethel would not have it. "No one ever gave a thought to leaving Hickory Hill," she says. "This is where we'll stay...
...five-judge New Hampshire court, which ruled on a second disputed clause in the will, to note in passing: "The need for appropriate statutory provision to implement the desires of the dying to aid the living is increasingly urgent." Now that doctors are attempting or gan transplants with ever increasing frequency, the need has become even more urgent. Aware of the shortage of transplant organs, legislators across the nation are acting with unaccustomed speed to make it easier to donate organs after death. Last year Massachusetts changed the law that stood in the way of Grace Metalious' gift...
...laboratory alleyways develop amnesia about their painful experience after they have been deprived of REM sleep. It is now provable that the more advanced a creature is, the more it can learn-and the more REM sleep it has. Humans in infancy, learning more intensely than they ever will again because everything is new to them, spend 50% of their sleep in REM, compared with 20% for adults...
...Laws (LL.B.). Soon a few holders of the J.D. discovered that they got job offers ahead of mere LL.B.s solely on the basis of their impressive-sounding degree. The significance was not lost on the American Bar Association, which endorsed the new degree with uncharacteristic haste. J.D.s have proliferated ever since. Without fanfare, more than 109 of the 150 accredited law schools in the U.S. have now switched. Last month Harvard made the change, and last week so did Columbia...
...Houston's 57-acre amusement park - seemed strangely at odds with the ecclesiastical nature of the discussions. On second glance, it seemed rather appropriate. In both their deliberations and their decisions, more than 210 of the nation's Roman Catholic bishops last week showed more than ever before that they are deeply concerned with the clamor for change within their church...