Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same luck. Each finds himself trapped over time in a series of personae that represent responses to both the vicissitudes of personal experience and social and political developments in the outside world. George-originally a guilty young man who admits "I know I'm no bargain and I suspect I'm deeply neurotic" - follows a common enough route, seeking happiness first in the routines and rewards of the business world and then junking it all to first with transactional analysis and play cocktail piano stints at local bars. He ends up, predictably enough, as a complacent and graying professor...
...Talk of the Town" item. Ross's notorious innocence in literary matters ("Is Moby Dick the man or the whale?") prompted him to change the reference to "nature, red in claw and tooth." Gill explains as best he can: "His literal-mindedness being what it was, I suspect that he must have worried it out that an animal seizing its prey would bloody its claws before it got around to bloodying its teeth...
Charach has produced a full-length movie. "The Second Gun," in which he seeks to prove from the testimony of eyewitnesses that another gun was drawn and fired in the Ambassador kitchen. His suspect is a former hotel security guard, an avowed right-winger who believed that John F. Kennedy "sold us out to the Russians" and that his brother would have done the same, if elected. The guard admitted having owned a gun of the same caliber as the one which apparently killed Kennedy but claimed to have sold it six months before. Charach demonstrates that he sold...
...some time. For several months, in fact, he has been suffering from myasthenia gravis (a debilitating disease that weakens the body muscles). On occasion, he has appeared in public with his eyelids held open by adhesive tape because his muscles were unable to keep them up. Some medical experts suspect that the muscular disease may have made Onassis more vulnerable to the effects of the flu. Although he had lost energy because of impaired nutrition, his cardiac condition has been reported as stable...
Doctors have long suspected that viruses, submicroscopic packets of nucleic acids similar to the DNA found in chromosomes, play a role in human as well as animal cancers. Dr. Sol Spiegelman, director of the Institute of Cancer Research at New York Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and one of the world's leading cancer virologists, points out that virus-like particles can be found in just about every human cancer. But proving that these particles cause the cancers has been more difficult. The cases against several suspect viruses have had to be dismissed for lack of scientific proof. There...