Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Discussing economics with a visiting Charles de Gaulle in 1944, Joseph Stalin once pointed out a young aide with a crew cut and mournful mien, and said: "I don't know anything. But this man-he is the whole plan." When Aleksei Kosygin became Premier of the U.S.S.R. 20 years later, his rise was seen as the coming to power of a new breed of managerial robot. Last week Stalin's glum young associate turned out to be a lively, even likable robot. In the second week of his official visit to France, Kosygin quipped and capered...
...Jack Ruby, 55, in serious condition at Dallas'Parkland Memorial Hospital after surgery to remove a cancerous lymph node from his chest; Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth, 66, recovering in London's King Edward VIFs Hospital following an unspecified abdominal operation; Joseph P. Kennedy, 78, resting in Boston's New England Baptist Hospital after an operation to remove lesions from his chest; and Actress Sina Lollobrigida, 38, feeling much better following treatment in Manhattan's Beth Israel Hospital for severe intestinal inflammation that resulted, she said, from eating an unwashed apple in Mexico...
...almost 300 physicians. Because Meniere's symptoms come and go unpredictably, evaluation of any treatment is a long and tedious process. But in a careful double-blind study, in which neither doctor nor patient knew which was the drug and which was the dummy sugar pill, Dr. Joseph C. Elia of Reno reported excellent results. Three-fourths of the time, the patients on the drug enjoyed relief from dizziness, nausea and headache; the tinnitus response was not so uniform, but still substantial...
Krown's forecasts-unparalleled since the Biblical Joseph accurately prophesied seven good and seven bad years for Egypt-stem from his observation of an ancient custom among Israel's nomadic Bedouins. After any October in which there is moderate rainfall, the desert wanderers move out of the Negev into more hospitable land. "Early rain," they explain confidently, "means a dry year...
...WTIC-TV for a documentary on prison life. Though his face and name were not revealed, Travers sought $50,000 damages from the station and state officials for invasion of privacy. The facts might indeed have entitled a "full-fledged citizen" to sue, ruled U.S. District Judge M. Joseph Blumenfeld. But "no actionable invasion occurs if the subject of such publicity is a prisoner. A prisoner becomes a public figure by virtue of his crime and subsequent trial...