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...shortage of McCarthy staffers who said this would probably be their final trip "within the system." There were some who didn't mind admitting that, personally, they'd rather throw firebombs or get heavy into dope--but they were attracted by the drama, the sheer balls, of McCarthy's "hopeless challenge...
Carnesale argued that any wholesale approach to reducing the numbers of nuclear weapons--"trying to do much about the consequences fo war"--is hopeless, and that the U.S. should adopt a piecemeal approach, taking individual weapons and trying to negotiate specific limitations or cutback treaties with the Soviet Union...
Because Spring is mobile and able to talk, his case is not the same as the celebrated one involving Karen Ann Quinlan, the young New Jersey woman whose hopeless comatose state led her parents to ask that efforts to keep her alive cease. (Though doctors disconnected her respirator almost four years ago, after a ruling by the New Jersey Supreme Court, Quinlan, still in a coma, remains alive.) "This man is not a vegetable," insists Fred Mues, administrator of the Holyoke Geriatric Center, where Spring lives...
...Despite that lead time, he frets, "I may not be able to travel with all the candidates before they cease to be candidates." He caught one with little time to spare, Republican Senator Larry Pressler of South Dakota. Says Stacks: "I managed to finish reporting a story on his hopeless and misguided presidential candidacy only two weeks before he dropped out." If some candidates are misguided, observes Midwest Bureau Chief Benjamin Gate, others are astonishingly absentminded. Gate escorted Republican Candidate John Anderson to a TIME editors' lunch in New York City. "Anderson rushed into the lobby of the Time...
...worst scribblers. A study published in the American Medical Association's Journal reports that at one hospital 33% of all the physicians' notes were essentially illegible (general surgeons and urologists were the worst offenders; gynecologists and cardiac surgeons did somewhat better). Pharmacy Times magazine regularly reproduces particularly hopeless prescriptions...