Word: impendingness
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Dr. Alvarez, 66, famed Mayo Clinic diagnostician, is editor of GP, monthly journal of the American Academy of General Practice. Addressing general practitioners in San Francisco last week, Alvarez counseled against lying to a dying patient or keeping up a cheerful farce for his supposed benefit. In one way or...
Minor characters were as sharply etched: a woebegone, moonfaced Puerto Rican accepting his impending arrest for perjury with a resigned shrug; an ex-Navy lieutenant commander, nervously eager to please, repeatedly and irrelevantly reminding the committee that he had been wounded in the South Pacific; a prim Fire Department receptionist...
"The United Nations are fighting to stop an impending World War," Shapley said. "However, we in this country aren't offering any hope to the under-privileged people in other parts of the world ... and for some of them, our enemy's philosophy has the brighter future."
Although the old committee will continue to meet monthly through June, letters from President Conant last week informed members of the committee's impending disbandment.
People's eight months at Newsweek had begun in argument: Malcolm Muir thought the little magazine looked like a moneymaker and should be pushed, but Board Chairman Vincent Astor disliked its low-grade formula. When People tried slicing the cheesecake thinner, circulation dropped and Astor yielded. Then an impending...