Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stormy Knesset session had begun with opening remarks by Peres on his talks with Sadat. Begin had not yet found time to receive Peres privately and thus had not heard a full and confidential report. Nonetheless, the Premier accused Peres of "telling us fantastic stories" about the talks. "I really want to ask," said Begin, "did he [Peres] ask his partner in the three-and-a-half-hour discussion if he, Mr. Sadat, is ready to make a territorial compromise? For me a part, and for you a part?" Begin then grabbed a piece of paper and ripped...
Last week the government announced that it will attempt to establish a new, more effective set of rules for the national pastime. The recommendations were part of a sweeping report on gambling, 2½ years in the making and 581 pages long, that was issued by a nine-member Royal Commission chaired by Lord Rothschild. The document constitutes the most exhaustive study of the British gambling industry's practices, growth and problems in more than 25 years...
...Rothschild report found, among other things, that 94% of the adult British population gambles at some time or other, 39% regularly. Happily the commission did not find that the national passion produced any harmful social or economic side effects. Rather, it suggested ways in which gambling could be more constructively channeled into socially beneficial directions. Noting that some London casino operations make 400% returns on their investments and that Ladbrokes, the best-known name in British bookmaking, doubles its profits every two years, the commission also pointed to the country's depleted coffers and held out the public hand...
Several studies report that jogging works well for moderately depressed neurotics. In one test of 28 depressed patients, a team of psychiatrists and psychologists at the University of Wisconsin Medical School found that for most of them, 30 to 45 minutes of jogging three times a week was at least as effective as talk therapy. Psychiatrist Robert S. Brown of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, who says it dawned on him one day that "nobody jogging down at the track ever appeared depressed," finds that the exercise works better than pills in controlling depression. About...
...reduced still further only a month ago when Ford expanded the office of the chief executive to include his brother William Clay Ford, 53, owner of the Detroit Lions football team. At the time the internal structure of the office was modified so that lacocca could no longer report to the chairman at all but instead had to deal through Caldwell...