Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reporters from bureaus across the country were deployed to seek out and interview teachers, professors and fellow students of Lyndon Johnson. Houston Bureau Chief Ben Gate made the Texas rounds, interviewed the President's former teachers in grammar school, high school and college, and spent a day talking with the citizens of Cotulla, 70 miles from the Mexican border, where 20-year-old Lyndon Johnson taught the fifth, sixth and seventh grades for a year. A key source for the story and a key force in the education of L.B.J. Howard Mell Greene, 78-year-old retired professor...
...physicians soon learn they must expect instances of patients, particularly among the elderly, who seek treatment for vague ailments with ill-defined symptoms merely to have someone to talk to. When costs get out of line, and let me assure you they will, there are three possible courses of action. The first is to reduce the benefits; the second is to increase taxes; the third is to impose Government controls on the services in an attempt to control costs. We know welfare benefits are not likely to be cut back once the public has learned to enjoy them. Certainly, constantly...
Despite the reversal, Sheppard may stay out of prison for some time. His lawyer has asked for a rehearing, may seek review by the U.S. Supreme Court, and hopes ultimately for an entirely new trial. Many another judge will doubtless get a crack at Sheppard's puzzling record...
Meeting in Atlanta last week, members of the National Council of Churches' Commission on Evangelism spent their sessions discussing race relations and experimental ministries that seek to serve men rather than convert them. "The concept of evangelism is broadening to include the totality of a man's life," explained Dr. Gerald Jud of the United Church of Christ. "Old evangelism tried to get everybody inside the ark. Today the church is trying to get the significance of God's love to people outside...
...important supporting role. In 1951, impressed by Pfizer's growing number of unsolicited foreign orders-, which accounted for $10 million annually in sales-he persuaded McKeen to allow him to begin building an overseas operation. "I figured that if we could do $10 million worth of business without seeking it," says Powers, "why not seek it and make more?" Powers' search has been spectacularly rewarding. Today Pfizer has 58 plants in 30 countries outside the U.S., sells its drugs and products ranging from baby powder to plastics in more than 100 countries...