Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus Kennedy views himself as standing for Big Government-where health and safety are involved, for example-but also for a freer marketplace. Some of his Republican counterparts view Kennedy in much the same mixed way. Says Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, a conservative who often needles Kennedy about his forays to the right: "Ted has no experience or confidence in local government. He still thinks all the competency is in Washington." G.O.P. Congressman Barber Conable also casts Kennedy as a centrist, a Big Government man but one who has stayed well within the mainstream of his own party. "Kennedy...
...prisoner, and does not bother to arm its police. Its currency is stable and its economy remarkably robust. It has a multiparty parliamentary system and is preparing to hold its fourth general election since it attained independence from Britain in 1966. The country is Botswana, and its state of health is all the more remarkable for the fact that it is encircled by the major states of conflict in the region: Rhodesia, South Africa, Namibia (South West Africa), Angola and Zambia...
...Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Joseph A. Califano Jr. backed away from his original estimate that the Harrisburg nightmare would cause no cancer deaths among the 2 million people living within a 50-mile radius of Three Mile Island. Appearing before Ohio Senator John Glenn's nuclear proliferation and energy subcommittee, Califano predicted at least one death and acknowledged that some scientific investigators were estimating up to ten deaths. The revision was necessary because it turns out that the initial levels of radiation released in the accident were higher than thought at the time...
...seem cold comfort to some, but it is not the only one that Thomas offers. Other happy refrains are sounded and resounded as the essays (averaging only 1,200 words long) tumble forth. He seems bemused by the phenomenon of healthy hypochondriacs. Americans, for example, are needlessly "obsessed with Health." Thomas wonders why, particularly at a time when "we are free of the great infectious diseases, especially tuberculosis and lobar pneumonia, which used to cut us down long be fore our time." Humans are not frail organisms coveted by every death-dealing microbe in the world, as so much...
...Capitulation." The skit concludes as Philip and the talk show's two other guests, a Labor Party representative (Chris Clemenson) and the British Minister of Science (Brian McCue), stand about in awkward silence until Philip raises his glass in a toast. "My health," he says...