Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delicacy with which Price says he handled the "18-minute gap" question with Rose Mary Woods illustrates this know-nothing White House mentality. Price admits
...fill this gap that Biochemist Anthony Cerami created the orphan-diseases lab. Unlike the drug companies, the scientists could not afford to screen thousands of compounds in hopes of finding one that might work. Instead, they concentrated on combining what was already known about a disease with their own ingenuity...
...style, dismiss him as a lightweight. "I don't go running to him to find new information," sniffs a leading Paris editor. Counters Salinger: "Since French coverage of America has, with a few exceptions, always been either uninformed or biased, I've been able to fill a gap...
Last week he visited the U.S. to discuss filling a similar gap on this side of the Atlantic by becoming a European commentator for ABC News. Salinger concedes that he might have taken a post in the early Carter Administration if one had been offered, but he now concludes that his new life in Paris is too good to leave. "What the hell," he says with a Gallic shrug, "I have the best job in the world." He is also fond of quoting an earlier American in Paris, Thomas Jefferson, who once remarked: "Every man has two countries...
...Clark doesn't. What could have been a book filling an important gap in the story of America's industrialization and urbanization in the late 1800s becomes instead a long collection of trivia and anecdotes. This new Edison biography is fine as source material for those who are interested in finding out details about the life of an important inventor, but it will not offer much interesting material to those with only a passing interest in the history of technology...