Word: hearted
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Shattered Tradition. The Republicans scored several notable upsets. Delaware's Charles L. Terry Jr., at 68 the nation's oldest Governor, was defeated by Republican Russell Peterson, 51, who surged ahead after Terry suffered a heart attack. A civic activist and Du Pont employee, Peterson is a rather dull, determined organizer. Arizona's one-eyed Republican Governor Jack Williams, 59, ran a repeat of his 1966 defeat of ex-Governor Sam Goddard, aided by a liquor-board scandal uncovered in the debris of Goddard's earlier regime. Wisconsin's Warren Knowles, 60, who was not favored to retain the governorship...
...Philippines v. Malaysia: At the heart of what so far remains this war of words is, quite fittingly, one particular word. That is padjak, which today in Malay means "mortgage" or "pawn" but a century ago meant "to lease" or "to cede." The issue is whether the Sultan of Sulu in 1878 ceded his rights to Sabah, as the Malaysians claim, or simply leased those rights, as is maintained in Manila. There is nothing much new about the Philippine claim-former President Diosdado Macapagal raised it during his election campaign in 1961. It remained a relatively minor issue until this...
...Herald belatedly turned the story over to its Pulitzer-orizewin-ning crime reporter, Gene Miller, who interviewed ex-minister Edwards and found him to be totally obscure ("I am a doctor and Gerstein is on the needle," said Edwards). The charges against Gerstein collapsed completely when Edwards, pleading heart disease, refused to come out of exile in Ontario and appear before the grand jury...
Died. Sir Harold Raggatt, 68, long-time director of Australia's Bureau of Mineral Resources (1942-51) and Department of National Development (1951-64); of a heart attack; in Canberra. Sir Harold planned the first complete geological survey of the continent, welcomed foreign capital for development of the desolate Out Back, eventually saw it all pay off as enough oil and gas were discovered to make Australia almost self-sufficient...
Jerald R. Gerst's "Brass Tacks" editorial entitled "Instant Pre-Med" disturbed me for, although Jerry's heart was in the right place, his analysis of the problems facing medicine was somewhat misdirected. Thus, I would like to raise some point in relation to that November 2 editorial...