Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...College, who says of the press and Congress: "They are like sharks. When they smell blood, they go mad." Another is J. Richard Nokes, 58, managing editor of the Oregonian, who declares: "A lynch-mob atmosphere has developed in the Washington press corps and in Congress. Now it has spread through the country." But majority sentiment in Portland is illustrated by the fact that Nokes' own newspaper receives 40 times as many anti-Nixon letters as pro-Nixon; one family alone wrote five angry letters in a single week...
Like a great natural disaster, the oil drought caused by the Arabs' cutback on production spread ominously through the industrial nations last week. Despite glaring signals of severe shortages ahead, leading consumer countries from Germany to Japan were in disarray. They often worked at cross purposes as each scrambled to get energy supplies only for itself-at almost any cost. Meanwhile oil-producing countries outside the Middle East happily pushed up prices...
...Filipino internists accepted the offer last May. Word of the program spread through the neighborhood, and the doctors now average about 30 patients a day, with ailments that range from a child's simple cough to stomach cancer. Since the clinic opened, it has referred 196 patients to Cabrini, raising the hospital's "bed census" by about 5%. "The idea is working," says Hospital Board Chairman Sister Irma Lunghi. "We're not saying that this is going to save the hospital, or the community either, but it is a start...
Throughout the cease-fire diplomacy of last week, the Arabs kept tightening their oil blockade of the West. Production cutbacks deepened; export embargoes spread. By week's end it was clear that after the shooting stops in the Middle East, the U.S., Europe and Japan will still be facing a war of oil attrition that will put severe strains on their diplomatic and economic cooperation...
...deposits, and the local John Deere dealer cannot keep up with new orders. Perhaps the busiest man in town is Accountant Curtis Brekke, who does the federal tax returns of about 1,000 wheat farmers. This year his clients are obsessed with finding ways to spread out their ample earnings for tax purposes. "For all the years they never had the big money, they didn't pay much income tax, and they think it should stay that way," he says. "The thought of having to pay the Government $5,000 at a shot sends them into a panic." Declares...