Word: quinlans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...despite the awarding of prizes like the C.L. Sulzberger Memorial Plate and the Franco-Quinlan Memorial Tent, Cockburn is a serious and orthodox journalist. Unlike Thompson, he uses sources and formal interviews--he has credibility. Not only is he the best media critic in the country, he is seriously committed to social change, and is an important critic of society as well. His articles on the business community fill a gap that has been the greatest flaw in American journalism for year. But all with a light touch--when he tells us that California oil and banking interests have traded...
...Garfunkel, Denny Doyle, George Romney, Shecky Greene, Susan Ford, Frank Fitzsimmons, Squeaky Fromme, Karen Ann Quinlan and Sonny Bono all decline invitations to speak at Class...
Since she lapsed into a coma more than eight months ago, Karen Anne Quinlan, 21, has become the center of an anguished controversy over her right to life-or death (TIME, Nov. 24 et ante). Described by her consulting doctors as being in "a vegetative state," Quinlan is breathing with the aid of a respirator, and her brain continues to send out the faintest of signals. A Morris County, N.J., court denied her adoptive parents' petition for the right to cut off the respirator that keeps Karen alive. Last week the Quinlans filed their first written arguments in what...
...interested in her life-style," he insisted. Said a Sussex County official familiar with the case: "I think Hyland's purpose is to cover himself just to make sure there was no foul play." Whatever the motive, it appears that Quinlan's life-style underwent some marked changes during the months before she took the combination of drugs and alcohol that is believed to be responsible for the coma. She apparently fell into a depression in midspring, when a close relationship came to an end. Karen and another woman had once been inseparable, according to companions; but when...
...raise the money. Indications are that she became involved with a low-level New Jersey underworld figure who supplied her with drugs. That became one more reason to set her brooding-and may have made the careless mixture of drugs and alcohol more likely. It now seems clear that Quinlan's life was changing faster than she could quite comprehend in the weeks just before it slipped from her control altogether...