Word: howard
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...arms and is stamped on all official documents. One translation is "Deeds are manly, words are womanly," though a looser rendering is "Let women talk and men act." The motto has irritated feminists, who have been trying for years but have failed to get it changed. Now Republican Senator Howard A. Denis of Montgomery County has taken up the women's cause, urging that a special commission search for a nonsexist alternative...
...15°. As he explains in his recent book More than Two Aspirin (Follett; $8.95), higher temperatures mean an increased flow of blood there?and presumably a reduction elsewhere, including the head. Almost invariably, he reports, the technique stops headaches. Still another imaginative treatment has been introduced by Dr. Howard Kurland at Northwestern University (Quick Headache Relief Without Drugs; Morrow; $7.95). He applies strong pressure at four sets of points on the body (wrists, temples, hands and neck). The object of Kurland's "acupressure": to overload the nervous system's pain centers?in effect, jamming the signals from the headache. While...
...foreign correspondents based in Peking, probably none have been writing about the "new" China with more skepticism than the Toronto Globe and Mail's Ross H. (for Howard) Munro. Since his arrival 2½ years ago in the Chinese capital, where he is the only resident North American journalist, Munro, 36, has reported on a Potemkin village in Inner Mongolia that he suspected was set up to mislead visiting foreigners, pieced together detailed accounts of Peking's struggle with trade deficits, and chronicled the attempts of Mao's successors to revise the Chairman's teachings. For his enterprise, Munro was pointedly...
...IMMIGRANTS by Howard Fast Houghton Mifflin; 389 pages...
...Howard Fast's novel The Immigrants is yet another pop epic to underscore this fact. The life and writing career of the author follow a familiar script as well. Fast, 62, was once the U.S.'s best-known literary Communist. In the '40s he wrote throbbingly about American history: the Revolutionary War in The Unvanquished and Citizen Tom Paine, Reconstruction in Freedom Road. As a political activist of the far left, he spent three months in jail during 1950 for failing to comply with a House Un-American Activities Committee subpoena. He was a columnist...