Word: stems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richard Nixon last week. Each day brought bad news about hard fact and worse rumors about impending defections in Congress of the men and women on whose verdict Nixon's lease in office hangs. The White House staff seemed to have no strategy or ideas on how to stem the onslaught...
...There is no doubt that the U.S. could use inspiring leadership, but the country's problems seem to stem from an even more pervasive and debilitating shortcoming. Our people lack a will to excellence. Could the right individual instill that...
Allergy Treatment. At the hearings, former staff members testified about Green Valley's various treatments. They said that Dr. William Philpott, a consulting psychiatrist who practices in South Attleboro, Mass., believed that mental disorders stem from allergies. He tried to treat the allergies by having students inhale carbon dioxide gas. (Two of his former patients in Maryland died following carbon dioxide inhalation therapy, and Philpott was acquitted of manslaughter in 1966.) According to the former head nurse, Esther Johnson Snow, another consultant, Dr. Sol Klotz of Orlando, Fla., told her to inject a student with his own urine...
Treading Tenderly. Although Tanaka's fortunes are at their lowest ever, no one is willing to count him out. Last week he moved swiftly to stem a total collapse of his Cabinet by shifting one of his loyal followers, Masayoshi Ohira, 64, from Foreign Minister to Fukuda's post at Finance. He named two other well-known and respected L.D.P. veterans to the other vacant posts: Toshio Kimura, 65, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Kichizo Hosoda, 62, to Hori's old job. From now on, however, the abrasive, aggressive Tanaka will have to tread much...
...outset last week the Christian Democrats and Socialists, the dominant partners, still could not resolve the impasse that had brought the coalition to the edge of collapse. They differed bitterly on the single issue of a national credit squeeze. Christian Democrats wanted to keep credit tight to stem inflation. The Socialists demanded that it be eased to avoid unemployment and help small businessmen...