Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moved by the court's angry words, the Illinois State Bar Association ordered a full-scale inquiry by its grievance committee. After nine months of probing into the prosecutors' conduct, the committee has rendered a verdict of its own. Its report not only clears Ramsey and Hayes of all wrongdoing, but also concludes that it was really the Supreme Court that "misapprehended the facts...
...National Heart Institute is barely halfway through an ambitious project to evaluate four drugs for possible use in preventing heart attacks by lowering the level of cholesterol in the blood. Last week a preliminary-premature, said some doctors-report raised hope that one of the drugs may already have prevented some attacks...
...where? Last week, in a 510-page report on the country's economic prospects, an eleven-man team of economists from Washington's Brookings Institution found that British industry is riddled with inefficiency. U.S. factories are rated at 100, said the study, British factories rate only 66 -behind plants in Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, West Germany and France. British executives, said the Brookings report, often "lack breadth as well as technical training," while unions cling to restrictive practices and refuse to tame wild cat strikes...
...They have divided Jewel into eleven individual "companies," each of them virtual fiefdoms whose executives receive from headquarters little more than general guidelines. "It's almost like a businessman going to his banker," says one company official. As if to emphasize their autonomy, Jewel's latest annual report contains photographs of 55 such middle-range executives-but none of either Chairman Clements or President Perkins...
...than ever last week when the hatch of an Apollo lunar vehicle opened and three smiling astronauts clambered out. In a giant vacuum chamber at Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center, the bearded, bone-tired trio had just spent eight days simulating a trip to the moon and back. Reported Spacecraft Commander Joseph Kerwin: "A prime reason for the mission was to come back and say 'Yes sir, the darned thing works.' We sure are going to be able to report that...