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...based on a study of crime reporting in cities from Newark to San Francisco, the committee concludes that the "preponderance of potentially prejudicial material" emanates from lawyers and law-enforcement agencies between arrest and trial. Wherever police and prosecutors have stopped talking, there has been a "significant decline" in overblown news stories-without any impairment of the vital role of the press in exposing crime and prodding lax law enforcement...
...total is divided by 2.245. Thus, as the Dow closed last week, the total price of the stocks was $1,997 and the point average 889.36. None of the individual stock prices were within miles of that figure, and most were actually listed at less than $100. At this overblown level, a shift of only 1% in actual market prices appears on the Dow as a dramatic change of nearly ten points-which many people mistake...
Orson Welles, looking puffy, overblown and overweight, exhibited Chimes and Midnight, a lively film that he directed and wrote with the help of William Shakespeare, who supplied the chief character: Falstaff, played by Welles. Through the centuries, most actors have had to stuff padding under their tights to play the renowned clown. Welles, at 51, remains unique; he is probably the first actor in history who appears too fat for the role...
...problem is not the overblown cry that professors are forced to "publish or perish." Most of the good teachers, in fact, cannot resist publishing; they have something they want to say to the world beyond their classrooms. Every teacher needs time to reflect and explore the frontiers of his field if he is to keep his teaching fresh. But whether all kinds of research always help teaching is problematical. Too often, says University of Utah English Chairman Kenneth Eble, scholarly magazines are established merely so that they can be "sent to editors of other magazines," and the scholar's great...
...seizure symbolized FDA determination to start acting under powers granted it by Congress in 1962 to prevent the sale of drugs for which overblown advertising claims have been made. In last week's test case, the victim was the Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Co., maker of some of the best-known products on the market (Listerine, Bromo-Seltzer, Dentyne, Smith Bros. cough drops...