Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chromosome Breaks. Two cases obviously do not prove that "acid" is leukemogenic as well as hallucinogenic. For more than two years, however, laboratory evidence connecting LSD and leukemia has been mounting. Cell damage from LSD was first reported in March 1967 by a team of researchers headed by Dr. Maimon M. Cohen at the State University of New York in Buffalo. Within six months, so much evidence had accumulated that the National Foundation-March of Dimes called an emergency meeting of top geneticists to consider the problem. The geneticists were properly hesitant to report outright that LSD causes leukemia. Nevertheless...
Leon Mann, a social psychologist at Harvard, and K. F. Taylor of the University of Melbourne, report in the Jour nal of Personality and Social Psychology that people in lines are possessed of a curious sixth sense that subconsciously spots the "critical point" when the sup ply of tickets will give out. Yet instead of giving up and going home, late comers succumb to an ersatz optimism and delude themselves into thinking that the line is shorter than it really...
...moon. The hollerer had to focus his tone sharply, like a diva trying to reach the upper balcony. To do this, some hollerers relied on a yodeling style in which every note was sung twice, a vibrating octave or so apart. A holler could be used to report distress, or good news-the recovery of a sick mule, the completion of spring plowing, the arrival of a circuit minister to give a service the next day. These days, hollerin' has by and large been outdated by modern communications, but it is still cherished-and practiced-by many...
...side in every pornography case that comes before the Supreme Court. At present, no fewer than 135 anti-pornography bills are under study by the House Judiciary Committee. Last year Lyndon Johnson appointed leading educators, sociologists, psychologists and lawyers to a presidential commission on obscenity and pornography. Its interim report, to be released this month, will recommend, among other measures, that all erotic wares in the marketplace be stamped Adult Material...
...subject of a well-publicized prosecution by the U.S. Court of Appeals. In Sweden, where movies are almost never censored for eroticism, I Am Curious (Blue), Yellow's sexier successor, has fared dismally at the box office. Booksellers in San Francisco, one of the nation's most permissive cities, report that sales of pornography have dipped 70% in the past six months...