Word: parkinsonism
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KENNETH W. PARKINSON, 46. A Washington attorney specializing in personal injury insurance cases, Parkinson was untouched by Watergate until the Nixon committee hired him to defend itself against a civil suit filed by the Democratic National Committee because of the wiretapping-burglary. Once a law clerk in the same Washington district court in which he is now indicted, he is charged with conspiracy...
...July. Mitchell and Kenneth Parkinson met with Dean at Nixon committee headquarters. Mitchell asked Dean to get FBI reports on the Watergate investigation for Parkinson and others. (Lawyer Parkinson was defending the Nixon re-election committee against a Democratic Party civil suit, and these reports could have been useful for this non-Governmental purpose...
...Watergate burglary were H. R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman, Nixon's former chief of staff and top domestic policy adviser; Mitchell; Charles W. Colson, former White House special counsel; Robert C. Mardian, former assistant attorney general; Gordon C. Strachan, a former aide; and Kenneth W. Parkinson, an attorney to Nixon's reelection finance committee...
Afternoon sun streamed into the large, formal drawing room, softly burnishing the exquisite antique furniture and brightening the fresh cut flowers. The two aging men sat by a blazing fire, chatting easily. Getty, though suffering from Parkinson's disease and internal ailments, still can show flashes of the aggressiveness that built an oil empire. He speaks slowly and deliberately. Lindbergh is hale and well tanned. He looks his role-dedicated environmentalist and exponent of slow, carefully planned industrial growth...
...PARKINSON'S DISEASE, which afflicts over a million Americans, could once be relieved only by severing certain nerve pathways deep in the cerebrum. While the operation relieved the tremors and rigidity of the disease, patients could suffer partial paralysis and loss of speech. Now, most Parkinson's victims can be relieved by a drug known as levodihydroxyphenylalanine, or L-dopa. First used successfully by George Cotzias of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, L-dopa provides a classic example of molecular chemistry at work. Normal movement depends in large part upon the action of dopamine, one of the brain...