Word: grafts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chatty Virgil who takes his readers on a tour of these monsters, pausing before them for ponderous comments like "Oh, the mysteries of life." It is not that the light touch is beyond Del Castillo. A felicitous phrase occasionally escapes him: they had "the habit of sprinkling theft and graft with holy water." It is just that he cannot refrain from constantly clubbing his characters senseless. In a matter of three pages, he manages to accuse a Spanish small businessman of "cynicism," "pharisaism." "obduracy," "unctuousness," "cravenness," "priggishness" and "cruelty." The reader's sympathy mulishly goes out to a fellow...
...brain but in the carotid arteries in the neck. Houston's Dr. Michael E. DeBakey has pioneered with a series of operations to restore full blood flow through a narrowed carotid-by installing a bypass, or cutting out the narrowed stretch, or putting in a patch graft to widen the artery. But evaluation of stroke victims' recovery is so difficult that no fewer than 22 medical centers are now doing DeBakey operations and comparing the results with the fate of unoperated patients. It will be a few years before medicine has a collective verdict...
...report his bribes on his federal income tax return. Last week Democratic Mayor George Chacharis, 54, pleaded guilty to doing just that-on a take of $226,686. He should have learned a lesson from his predecessor, Peter Mandich, who was set free. Mandich "received large amounts of graft payments." said a U.S. attorney in court, ''but the evidence does not show that he failed to report the payments as income on tax returns...
...story. And perhaps, if it is honesty that is to be considered, no one has. The detectives are good cops, and convincingly so. But the author can see no other kind; even his bribe takers are merely roguish leftovers from an era when gaslight softened the ugly look of graft. An artist as skilled as Dougherty should know that the boys in blue come in other shades...
Saving Outcasts. When graft scandals broke in San Francisco in 1907, Rogers won national fame. He agreed to defend two top executives of a local streetcar company, accused of bribing city officials. Rogers' opponent in the case was the fiery Francis J. Heney, a friend of President Theodore Roosevelt. In the course of a tumultuous trial, someone shot at Rogers, barely missing. Someone else shot Heney in court and almost killed him. Weeks later, Heney reappeared with a hideous scar, only one eye, and plenty of public sympathy. But Rogers won his case by proving that some of Heney...