Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ivory day with Peter Duchin at the piano ($3,750), drumming with Buddy Rich ($5,250) and two "Lessons in Conversation" with Truman Capote, lisped at $3,000. There is also a one-day grounding in economics with doom-crying Economic Forecaster Eliot Janeway, whose price ($2,875) would suggest emigration rather than investment...
Robert J. Barker, assistant district attorney investigating the case, said yesterday that "the evidence presently in the possession of the commonwealth does not properly suggest the indictment" of Leonard Piazza, 45, of Lynn. Barker added that his office will continue to work in conjunction with federal authorities to find the "right...
Such a decision has so far been avoided because all of the obvious cures entail serious political risks. To increase domestic energy supplies involves such environmental gambles as oil spills at sea and strip mining on land, and as the election returns suggested, environmentalism can be a potent political issue. Conversely, to decrease energy consumption would slow the economy, which seems too weak to stand much strain. No matter what President Ford and the congressional leaders suggest, they will confront criticism...
Fleas may soon be the least of her problems. Recent studies suggest that the pesticides in the collars may be hazardous to both animals and people. In fact, the packages carry warnings that children should not be closely exposed to pets wearing the collars. Veterinarians who put flea collars on 50 cats at Washington State University reported that 21 of the animals developed ataxia-depression-a nervous disorder characterized by listlessness, loss of appetite and lack of coordination; four of the animals died. The Environmental Protection Agency warns that flea-collar poisoning may produce dizziness, nausea and skin rashes...
...liberties of a novelist are taken for granted. There is a lot of "Harry-Truman-stirred-on-his-pillow'' writing. Worse, during the 30-page death scene of Franklin Roosevelt the privilege of author's mind reading is abused ("it is not too fanciful to suggest...