Word: fact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chad last week was taking Laetrile, together with vitamins and health foods, as well as his chemotherapy pills. Massachusetts doctors warned, however, that Laetrile was incompatible with regular chemotherapy and had, in fact, caused signs of cyanide poisoning in Chad's body. After considering a possible kidnaping charge against the Greens, Massachusetts Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti instead sought a court order demanding that the Greens return Chad to Massachusetts for treatment. Judge Guy Volterra granted the order. Last week he held the parents in contempt of court for disobeying it, but gave them another week to comply before...
Another misconception had been caused by Rocky himself. He was not as healthy as people thought. In fact, he was being treated for heart disease brought on by hardening of the arteries, but he had not wanted to tell his family...
...afternoon, there were 30 known dead and hundreds wounded; hospitals were jammed with the dying (see box). Bakhtiar defended the slaughter, which followed a similar assault two days earlier, as a retaliation by the army for an attack on police headquarters by civilians armed with machine guns. But in fact no eyewitness had seen the police building being assaulted...
...popularity of Kents over all other imported cigarettes has less to do with taste or tar content than with the fact that Brown & Williamson International, which markets Kents abroad, has cornered 90% of the Rumanian cigarette import market. The dollar shop at Bucharest's Intercontinental Hotel is piled high with cartons of Kents, a tantalizing symbol of Western opulence. Among the principal purchasers are Third World students in Rumania, who supplement their meager stipends by buying Kents and trading them for cash. Such traffic, though illegal, is tolerated by the government. After all, bribery has been part of Rumanian...
...logo is the same, and so is the commitment to pictures. Occasionally it flashes the informality and common touch of its popular predecessor. But in many respects the new Look, back this week after seven years, is a magazine with a split personality. As if to emphasize the fact, the first issue is being sold under two different covers. Look East, distributed as far as the Rockies, features the late Nelson Rockefeller, while Patricia Hearst smiles from the cover of Look West...