Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Linowes commission also found that insurance investigators often collect data from neighbors on people's sex lives ("Is she promiscuous?") and marital histories, even though no studies show that either affects life spans or accident rates. The investigations are sometimes shoddy because many firms employ part-time students, off-duty policemen, housewives and retired people as probers. James Millstone, an assistant managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was refused auto insurance by Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. of San Francisco because of phony information obtained from an elderly neighbor, who was mad at Millstone because...
...drug Laetrile advance. They choose to ignore the word of the medical profession and the results of several independent studies, all of which indicate that the drug is at best useless. Instead they put their faith in the word of their aunt's best friend's neighbor, who is reported to have been "cured of terminal cancer" by the drug...
...juvenile court, thinks that a lower limit may have been reached: "I don't expect a six-year-old to be committing homicides." Don't be too sure. In Washington, D.C., a six-year-old boy siphoned gasoline out of a car and poured it over a sleeping neighbor. Then he struck a match and watched the man go up in flames...
...doughty Norwegians also have become embroiled in a series of diplomatic and territorial disputes with their giant neighbor. The touchiest is the issue of how to establish their areas of control in the Barents Sea and its continental shelf. Not only do the Soviets want to protect their strategic position around Murmansk, they also seek increased fishing rights and access to the potential oil and gas reserves in the 59,870 sq. mi. under dispute. After seven years of negotiations on the question, says a Norwegian diplomat, "we've got absolutely nowhere...
...running board of a car when it swerved into a utility pole. The crash crushed the young man's skull, broke his collarbone and punctured a lung. He was in a coma with a 107° fever and high pulse when doctors decided to cease treatment. A neighbor lent the parents a piece of Neumann's cassock. Soon after they touched Kent with the cloth he began to recover. Now a music teacher, Kent Lanahan says, "They couldn't explain what happened, so I guess it was the Man Upstairs...