Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crusading fortnightly journal last month exposed the derelictions of John Ashcraft, director of the West Virginia department of mines. Ashcraft, the magazine alleged, gentled mammoth coal companies with only token fines for safety violations, while at the same tune violating the law himself by failing to meet the required minimum qualifications for a mine safety inspector. As a result, a committee of the West Virginia state senate will decide this week whether to recommend Ashcraft's impeachment. The aggressive publication that dug out these facts is hardly a national name, though among the miners of Appalachia and labor experts...
...editors of the Harvard Political Review have national aspirations for their quarterly, 50-page, student-run journal, and last week they landed the first of those aspirations: Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass...
...study, which will appear in the upcoming issue of Technology Review, a journal published at MIT, was co-authored by Irwin C. Bupp, research fellow in Business Administration at the Business School, and Jean-Claude Derian, Marie Poule Domsimoni and Robert Treitel of the Center for Policy Alternatives of MIT's School of Engineering...
...subject of the coming depression--always only coming for most Harvard students. Amid the gossip of what's being written in other parts, one Kentuckian, amber-voiced and somnolent, got to talking excitedly about a book about poor back-hills people commissioned by the Louisville Courier Journal "in the style of Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men." Another Southerner quipped smilingly--not wanting to disparage such excitement but with full knowledge of Agee--that the commissioned writer would only have to take a few years off and read about 20,000 books. Then he'd be ready...
Hans Steinke conducted their experiments with cotton-topped marmosets, South American monkeys that are known to develop lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system, when they are exposed to two viruses of the herpes family. The researchers reported in the British journal Nature that they inoculated 42 of the animals with a vaccine made from killed herpes saimiri viruses, then exposed some of the immunized animals and controls to live, cell-free viruses. Most of the non-immunized monkeys developed malignant lymphoma and died of the disease. The immunized animals remained healthy...