Word: franked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...listened carefully-and urged heads of state and their minions to express themselves freely. "You can be blunt," she would say. "Go ahead, that's what I'm here for." Throughout her 13-day tour of Latin America and the Caribbean, Rosalynn Carter managed to establish a frank rapport with her hosts. She achieved her goal of convincing top leaders that President Carter wants to improve long-neglected relations with Latin nations...
...illicitly by tens of thousands of American cancer sufferers. The substance is smuggled into the U.S., mainly from Mexico. No reputable studies have found evidence to support claims that the drug cures or prevents cancer (TIME, May 23). Its use is opposed by the American Medical Association, and Dr. Frank Rauscher, American Cancer Society senior vice president for research, insists: "We know doggone well that Laetrile doesn't work." But backers put their faith in tales of miracle apricot-pit cures and refuse to be dissuaded. Many are impatient with the pace of cancer research and suspect that doctors...
Perhaps the most talked about event this year was the publication of an article in the MIT newspaper "thursday," in which two MIT women gave extremely frank evaluations of the sexual performances of 36 MIT men, listed by name...
...Wrigley Field in Chicago, and Fenway Park in Boston, these new futuristic monstrosities are sickeningly bland in conception, and utterly miserable places to watch baseball. One of the worst is Anaheim Stadium in Southern California, which I had the misfortune of visiting last summer. The game was a beauty; Frank Tanana of the Angels and Catfish Hunter of the Yankees locked in an extra-inning duel. But as is the fashion in the new parks, our seats in the upper deck were a good five or six miles from the action. The field's dimensions are completely symmetrical--the distance...
Superstripper. Then there is the saga of Frank Burford, who as recently as 1973 was making $19,000 a year. In 1976 his income was more than $4 million. He became a superstripper-of coal. A former Emory University law professor, Burford returned home to West Virginia in 1967 to liquidate his ailing father's highway-construction business. Instead, he and a cousin revved up the company, branched into trucking and started hauling coal. The partners took over a money-losing coal company and started acquiring leases on vast carboniferous acreage. When coal prices soared in the wake...