Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ballots and Bandwagons, Ralph G. Martin saw it as "a glorified national town meeting, mixed with a sense of circus and a huge tremor of hope and history." To H. L. Mencken, it was "vulgar, ugly, stupid, tedious, hard upon both the higher cerebral centers and the gluteus maximus. And yet there suddenly comes a show so gaudy and hilarious, so melodramatic and obscene, so unimaginably exhilarating and preposterous that one lives a gorgeous year in an hour...
Committee theologian Ralph Potter felt that important issues were ommitted from the Beecher committee's re-evaluation of human death. They brought it to the public hoping to stimulate discussion, according to Mendelsohn, and Potter will be among the first to comment...
...also one for other disciplines, especially religion and law. Everett I. Mendelsohn, associate professor of the History of Science at Harvard, joined up after Beecher saw him at a conference on the social implications of biology and chemistry, because he felt his historical background would broaden the group. Ralph Potter was pulled in from Divinity School because Ebert wanted a theologian on hand. The first man he asked recommended Potter...
...malaise and nausea and passing dark urine. Liver function was abnormal, and a laboratory examination showed evidence of infectious hepatitis. Within 24 hours, not only the man's wife but all their eight children had telltale symptoms of hepatitis. A team of Air Force medics headed by Major Ralph D. Reynolds reports in the Archives of Internal Medicine that the virtually certain source was water leaking from the freeze balls. The water also carried whooping-cough germs, an amoeba and four species of bacteria, including at least three that cause dysentery. There was a strong suggestion of "fecal contamination...
...even the limited role described by Fortas troubled many, including liberal friends. He admitted, for instance, that 21 months after donning the judicial robes, he had called a businessman friend, Ralph Lazarus, chairman of the board of Federated Department Stores, to chide him for questioning Administration estimates of war spending. Fortas refused to say whether Johnson had instigated the call, thereby leaving the impression that...