Word: offs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The scandal started in 1958 when Distillers Co., a huge British conglomerate known best for selling Scotch and gin, heavily advertised and sold a dangerous tranquilizer, Thalidomide, without adequately testing its effect on pregnant women. Before Distillers finally pulled the drug off the market, in 1961, some 450 tragically deformed...
Califano telephoned an invitation to North Carolina's Governor James Hunt: How about a last-minute meeting to work out a compromise? Hunt agreed, and the university drew up a $40 million plan for new academic programs and building renovation at the state's five predominantly black campuses...
The sisters have at least had a strong family to return to. The Roches-Irish, Catholic, suburban, middle class-are the subject of a couple of the sisters' best songs and cast a long shadow over most of the rest. Their father, John A. Roche, developed and marketed a...
These days, politics and theology no longer come up for much consideration. Questions raised in the Roches' music are decidedly personal. The songs are sharp and deceptively cool, like being stabbed by an icicle. After a while, the weapon disappears and only the wound remains. Maggie's Damned...
Stuck back in Washington during the war, she is just a bit player here. That is dis appointing, but maybe ABC will reunite her, Ike and Kay some day in a sitcom spin-off-a sort of Three's Company Goes to Washington. Next to The Ropers, it would...