Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Club is the only "pure" university club left in New York, since the Yale Club now admits Dartmouth graduates and the Princeton Club allows Pennsylvania alumni to join. Rising costs, the flight of some businesses to the suburbs, and a period of reaction against the idea of selective clubs forced many New York clubs to either close or to change with the times...
...Michigan's Charles C. Diggs, convicted and sentenced to three years in prison for taking salary kickbacks from his staff, must face a vote of the entire caucus on whether he can remain as chairman of the Africa Subcommittee of the House International Relations Committee. So, too, must Pennsylvania's Daniel Flood, indicted on bribery and other charges, if he wishes to keep his chairmanship of the Labor, Health, Education and Welfare Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee. Similarly, Californians Edward Roybal and Charles Wilson, censured in the Korea scandal, may be able to keep their subcommittee positions...
Even while this new method is being developed to treat kidney disease, thousands of Americans may be unwittingly bringing it upon themselves. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, Drs. Thomas Murray and Martin Goldberg of Philadelphia's University of Pennsylvania Hospital report that as many as 5% of all instances of kidney failure in the U.S.-some 8,000 new cases a year-may be caused by common over-the-counter and prescription analgesics. The usual culprit: a mixture of aspirin and either phenacetin or acetaminophen, ingredients found in many well-known painkillers as well...
...other action, the assembly formed an ad hoc committee to prepare for a conference, at the University of Pennsylvania, of representatives from the eight Ivy League schools, the University of Chicago, Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...team of psychologists thinks it has the answer. Writing in the journal Science, Harold Sackeim of Columbia and Ruben Gur and Marcel Saucy of the University of Pennsylvania report that the left side of the face is not perceived well by a viewer. The team bases its conclusion on split-brain research, which shows that the right hemisphere of the brain has predominant control over the left side of the face and that the left hemisphere governs the right side. Other studies indicate that the right hemisphere of the brain is better than the left in recognizing faces and processing...