Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Love is not a stimulating emotion," proclaimed Dr. Morris Fishbein, 73, retired editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association. "It's a weakening one. The victim sweats, his blood vessels dilate, he takes on a pale and sickly look." For every Leander ready to swim the Hellespont, "the record is filled with stories of coronaries and strokes brought on by exertion caused by too much emotion...
...chemical until they have absorbed a fatal dose. Trouble is, children are likely to do the same, because thallium-sulfate baits are often put up in the shape of doughnuts or made of crumbled cookies. Last week, after years of tracking down victims of infantile curiosity, the A.M.A. Journal reported that nine Texas children died of proven thallium-sulfate poisoning between 1954 and 1959, and at least 26 others suffered lasting brain damage. Other cases have been reported from New York to Oregon, but they are most common in the South, where pesticides are most needed. U.S. Public Health Service...
...poison mixture from 3% to 1%; the U.S. Department of Agriculture did the same in 1960. But even the weaker mixture is dangerous: it takes only half an ounce of chemically adulterated cookies to kill an average three-year-old. And 15 of the cases in the A.M.A. Journal study developed after the new law was passed...
...parvenu playing a game that calls for expertise, Publisher Morrison made many costly mistakes. The Journal's vaunted liberalism was never more than timid; its qualifications as a newspaper were never better than just fair. Toward the end, the paper was losing $90,000 a month, and the till was so bare that Morrison borrowed money from his own loyal staffers-many of whom have not been paid since mid-December...
...Journal's presses came to a halt after one of its more unsentimental creditors, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, demanded payment of some $200,000 in back taxes and penalties. Showing remarkable patience, the IRS stayed action-even advanced the paper $800 for an emergency supply of paper and ink-while Morrison went hunting for prospective buyers. But although he located a few-among them Publisher Hank Greenspun of the Las Vegas, Nev., Sun-none seemed overeager to buy a paper that is $1,200,000 in hock...