Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter found time to visit Democratic delegates and contributors in New York and Texas, review convention plans, schedule fund raisers to pay off his $1.2 million campaign deficit, and consider procedures for selecting a running mate. One decision: to form a panel of "distinguished Americans" to give advice, if not consent, on a candidate for Vice President...
...there is more to it than that, and the question deserves a sober−but not too sober−answer. For, thanks to Ehrlichman and The Company, Truman Capote and Answered Prayers, and Elizabeth Ray and The Washington Fringe Benefit, the roman à clef may become not only the form the bestselling novel takes in 1976 but the symbol of a rather shoddy year that could just possibly go down in history as the Age of Psst!−Have-You-Heard...
Should the extract eventually be used on humans, according to Ehresmann, it will probably be applied in ointment form directly to the developing herpes sores. That day would come none too soon for millions of herpes sufferers. Says Ehresmann: "Herpes virus disease is very disabling and disrupts the life of a victim. Any substance that could help control it would be a significant contribution to human health...
...What struck the researchers most was that the relapse rate among the "normal" drinkers-who consumed an average of one drink per day-was no higher than among those who tried to abstain. Thus, they concluded, normal drinking may now have to be accepted along with abstinence as "a form of remission" from acute alcoholism...
...with Loew, who later became one of the founders of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and invested $35,000 in Queen Elizabeth, a cranky, French-made potboiler that starred an aging Sarah Bernhardt -and was a smash success. Zukor maneuvered his Famous Players Film Co. through a series of deals to form Paramount, the first film company with its own theater chain, and began turning out scores of movies, beginning with The Count of Monte Cristo in 1913, counting on high-paid stars, such as Mary Pickford and Rudolph Valentino, to draw the crowds. Unlike other early movie magnates, Zukor avoided both...