Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Dr. Morris Fishbein, 87, author, newspaper columnist and outspoken editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association for 25 years; in Chicago. Fishbein, TIME'S first medical consultant, became editor of the Journal in 1924. He built it into an authoritative source of information for doctors, but his increasingly strident defense of the medical status quo led to his ousting...
...Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts," Paul Johnson writes. Johnson is an Orwellian socialist deeply concerned for liberty, a dyspeptically progressive Roman Catholic, former editor of the left-wing British journal New Statesman, and a believer with a passion for accuracy. He has written a literary rarity, a highly readable, deeply learned, thoroughly fascinating account of 2,000 years of Christian history...
Editor Gerard Sherry of San Francisco's Catholic Monitor said, "I think he was trying to explain Christian ideas on promiscuity. If anything, he showed himself much less arrogant than Ford. Ford said [in a Ladies' Home Journal interview] his daughter would never have an affair. That was pretty dumb. Carter was being truthful with all due humility." The reaction that most intrigued California Pollster Mervin Field was expressed by his 16-year-old daughter Melanie as she watched television news accounts with her father. When the Carter-Playboy story was concluded, Melanie asked: "Dad, is Jimmy Carter...
...Harvard study, appearing today in the New England Journal of Medicine, estimates the cost-effectiveness of a mass immunization program and concludes that vaccination makes sense for most adults...
Sidney Wolfe of the HRG said this summer, "The major disease in the U.S. this year related to Fort Dix will not be swine flu but, rather, swine flu vaccine disease." The Lancet, a respected British medical journal, concluded that the swine flu virus "seemed to be not very good at infecting man and may have died out as a result" and implied that the U.S. response to a minimal danger," and suggested that the government stockpile the vaccine and administer it only if swine flu reappeared...