Word: recommendations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...love it. I recommend it to my friends," a Harvard sophomore said of the Confi Guide. "The nastiest, most unprintable garbage I've ever seen," snarled an unidentified Lowell House tutor...
Mosley holds his own, but his case suffers the same weaknesses as others that have been brought against the Mafia. For example, four of his main witnesses have recently been convicted of crimes; in exchange for their testimony, Mosley has promised to recommend lighter sentences for them. Will the jury believe men with their records? One is a Mafia gunman who testifies that, from a hidden place, he saw Franzese's pals stab The Hawk several times in a parking lot. Remarking on the witness's matter-of-fact account, the defense asks the jury: "Did you ever...
...that regular use of the polyisobutylene compounds can occasionally clog small oil passages and cause engine damage. Ray Potter, retired supervisor of fuels and lubricant research at Ford, says: "No one has ever presented any scientific data to prove that additives do anything good." The auto manufacturers do not recommend the use of additives except to deal with some "special problems." The trouble is that the ordinary driver cannot really diagnose those problems...
...meets the road obliquely, so that if a driver goes onto the bridge at exactly the same angle he has been traveling, he will automatically wind up in the water. Kennedy's car, in fact, got only 18 feet onto the bridge before plunging into the pond. Locals recommend stopping altogether before leaving the road, then inching forward at 5 m.p.h. Kennedy informed the state Bureau of Motor Vehicles, which suspended his license last week pending its own administrative investigation, that he had been going 20 m.p.h. There is no tangible evidence to dispute his figure, and there were...
...Blame. Parents of autistic children have never had much reason for hope. Until Dr. Leo Kanner of Johns Hopkins University identified and defined the disease in 1943, most doctors concluded that autistic children were mentally retarded, and could recommend nothing more than packing them off to a vegetable-like existence in a custodial institution. Kanner, taking more careful note of their mental abilities, concluded that the disease was a psychosis. He felt that the condition was innate, but noted that many parents of autistic children were highly intellectual and emotionally cold-"refrigerator parents," as he called them. Other experts...