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...never mentions them. His references to his wife are typical of his general outlook. He seldom mentions her at all--usually only when she visits him. Oddly, he never refers to her by her first name, but only as "my wife." His descriptions of her visits are terse and factual; he rarely relates his feelings about her. At bottom, it seems, he has no real love for her. With that in mind, it isn't surprising that he shows no real feelings for anyone else...

Author: By Stephen J. Chapman, | Title: Nazi Notebooks | 3/12/1976 | See Source »

...that restrictions against advertising are unlawful restraints of trade that keep the public in the dark about legal fees and lawyer qualifications. The consumer organization, which wants to publish a market guide to lawyers, also charged that the bar groups had violated its First Amendment right to print "important factual information." At the same time, individual attorneys in New York, Virginia, Wisconsin and Hawaii went to court on their own behalf, arguing, among other things, that without ads a small practitioner was unfairly and illegally prevented from competing with larger, well-established firms. Moreover, the Federal Trade Commission filed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Adamant Against Ads | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

...reference to Mr. Levy in my review as a former Times reporter was indeed a factual error due to my own confusion, for which I apologize to Crimson readers. As to Chavez's health during the march, Chavez himself says [on page 211 and 212] the pain was severe. "I was so miserable, I thought I was going to die...By then my leg was swollen all the way up to my thigh, and I was running a high fever. I continued walking, but on the seventh day, because I was shaking with fever, the nurse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DALY REPLIES | 2/18/1976 | See Source »

...struggles for national liberation" or "struggles against communist insurgency." In the long run, the logic of material conditions tends to win out. Thus far, natural selection theory represents our most systematic understanding of this logic. The theory's development depends upon our continuing efforts to test current models against factual data. Wilson's critics have set a poor example of how this can be done...

Author: By Martin Etter, | Title: Sociobiology: A Positive View | 2/10/1976 | See Source »

...gadfly was stung in turn by Robert Benchley's parody of factual anthologies, Did You Know That- Ice is really a vegetable organism which forms on the surface of water to prevent it from freezing solid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Antidote to Factoids | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

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