Word: ralph
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...years. Variety Children's Hospital in Miami, where Elin was staying, asked a local court to allow an operation. Last week, after a hearing that featured a former March of Dimes poster child smiling in her wheel-chair as evidence that afflicted children can lead happy lives, Judge Ralph Ferguson ordered doctors to operate. As a result, Elin can expect to live at least six to eight years. Said the couple's attorney, Milton Kelner: "They are loving, caring parents. Is it not the right of the parents to decide the course of their child...
Disc Jockey Ralph McCarthy was playing Willie Nelson tunes, reading the news and serving up public service announcements one Saturday last November to the folks in the redwood country around Eureka, Calif., when he bumped, voice first, into a social phenomenon. He had just finished reading a message about single mothers who needed help in trying to re-enter the job market. The program, one of many for single mothers in Northern California, was sponsored by a group called Displaced Homemakers. Impulsively, McCarthy told his listeners: "I'm a displaced homemaker too. I'm a single father...
...sits in a chair on the stage of the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower The ater, Ralph Richardson somewhat resembles Graham Sutherland's portrait of Winston Churchill. His legs are squared apart and appear sturdily embedded in stone. His arms are welded to the arm rests, yet they seem mobilized to catapult him into action. His eyes are banked fires set in a sulky sullen face a trifle mangled by time. As with Churchill, a pixie lurks beneath Richardson's countenance, momentarily threatening to bolt into some unpredictable bit of mischief...
...Ralph J. Bunche '28, United Nations undersecretary for special political affairs, told the Overseers that U.N. diplomats informally discussed the controversy. Bunche reportedly told the Overseers that most UN members favored the new diplomas...
...serious heart disease. One way to reduce stress is through regular exercise, which tones the body and increases the efficiency of the heart and lungs. The case for exercise was made persuasively by a 20-year study of 17,000 Harvard alumni, age 35 to 74, by Stanford Epidemiologist Ralph Paffenbarger. He found that men who made a lifetime habit of regular exercise (say, strenuous swimming or jogging three times a week) had about half as many heart attacks as those who were sedentary. Even smokers, overweight men and those with high blood pressure or family histories of heart disease...