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...once held the most influential leadership post in the free world is being verbally assaulted by a normally mild-mannered television interviewer. Nixon turns more defensive...
...testosterone in the heart attack victims, but his work has shown that the hormone imbalance is also related to other abnormalities frequently found in heart patients-higher-than-normal levels of blood cholesterol, fat, sugar and insulin. That finding, he said, appears to be "the elusive link between the mild form of diabetes and heart disease." If the hormonal imbalance is proved to be the root cause of heart disease, Phillips concluded, diet, drugs or other means might be used to change the blood hormone levels in order to prevent a heart attack...
...Having finished his review of 32 dams and other water projects that he had threatened to cancel, he again reversed himself by reprieving about a third of them outright and agreeing to the completion of parts of another third; he insisted that the rest be scrapped. He announced a mild anti-inflation program that offended neither labor leaders nor businessmen...
Carter's aides had hoped that his mild anti-inflation program and his retreat on the $50 tax rebate would help boost businessmen's confidence in the Administration. That does not seem to have happened. Businessmen were generally happy with Carter's continued rejection of controls and his dumping of the rebates. Said Wall Street Investment Banker Sherman Lewis of Loeb, Rhoades & Co.: "It shows that maybe he is a little slow, but he is smart. The guy is willing to admit when he is wrong...
...rather strange reputation these days. It is a brand of rock that never set out to be "art" and can do without intellectual and critical backgammon games, but nonetheless, rock critics seem unable to resist. One such critic, Lester Bangs, dismisses it as a "tyrannosaurus tamed into brontosaurus mild-mannered." I guess we are supposed to see the development of this genre in England in terms of the birth of a veritable fire-breathing British dragon while the noble St. George and bands like Pink Floyd, the Yardbirds, and even Led Zeppelin were occupied with the last flashbacks of acid...