Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sighting-in on Nixon seemed so simple that some of the newsmen's barbs were tipped not with poison but with pity. "Everything he says or does these days seems to go wrong," wrote the New York Times's Washington Bureau Chief James Reston from San Francisco last week. "The harder he runs, the more he stumbles. Even in his home state after all these years, he seems trapped by that old familiar but vague charge that 'there is something about him that troubles me.' One hears it all again, like the echo of the past...
American journalism does not possess any agency to guard its standards and supervise its practitioners. A newspaper publisher can give criminal advice, lie to the public, poison its intelligence without being held accountable for his conduct...
Contemplating murder? Helpful scientific advice is available from the Poison Information Center...
Convinced that "tobacco, in the form of cigarettes, is a poison more lethal than the deadliest narcotic," Oregon's Democratic Senator Maurine Neuberger, who gave up her own addiction six years ago, vowed to "introduce legislation to deal with this tragic problem." Her probable bill: a new tax on cigarettes to subsidize cancer research...
...significant findings: > Though scarce and "very costly," said Yale University's Dr. Robert E. Handschumacher, a new drug shows unique promise in relieving the crises of adult patients suffering from some forms of acute leukemia. Earlier anti-leukemic drugs worked mostly in children and were almost as poisonous to the patient as to his cancerous cells. But 6-azauridine, which has to be injected, and a still newer chemical variant that can be taken by mouth apparently do not poison the patient's blood, brain or guts. They have helped severely ill patients for five or six weeks...