Word: throat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paranoia. "If I smoked a joint and went into a restaurant where people were laughing," she explains, "you could not convince me that they were not laughing at me. The lady in the corner holding the compact was looking at me over her shoulder." A year ago, her throat raw from marijuana, she decided to stop using all drugs. Now she avoids even aspirin...
...Cavafy underwent a tracheotomy for throat cancer. After prolonged agony, he died on April 29, 1933, his 70th birthday. His last conscious act was to draw a circle on a blank sheet of paper and then place a period in the middle of it. The cycle of his life had ended; the cycle of his art had scarcely begun...
Mystery Man. Sore Throat's disclosure of these operations was merely the latest in a series of revelations about the A.M.A. One previously leaked set of documents described the A.M.A.'s efforts to assure that doctors who shared its political philosophy were appointed to federal advisory panels. Another set revealed how the A.M.A.-which publicly asserts its independence of the nation's $8.4 billion-a-year pharmaceutical industry-decided to permit representatives of drug companies in its scientific policymaking body. A third packet told how the A.M.A. and the drug companies, which had earlier contributed...
...identity of the source of these leaks remains a mystery, even to those who have received his communications. Sore Throat claims that he is a doctor who worked in the A.M.A.'s Chicago office for about ten years. For most of this time, he says, he went along with the organization's policies. But in recent years he began agitating for reform. As a result, he says, he was given his walking papers when the A.M.A.'s combative new executive vice president, Dr. James Sammons, ordered a cutback of some 70 employees last spring. Now living...
...result of Sore Throat's leaks, Congressmen and Senators are talking of holding hearings on A.M.A. activities in order to determine whether they violate laws on political activities by corporations. The IRS also has for some time been trying to decide whether the A.M.A.'s activities should cost it its tax-exempt status, and the Postal Service is reviewing the A.M.A.'s second-class mailing privileges (along with those of other organizations). But the revelations have yet to force any visible changes in the organization's policies. Sammons remains firmly in charge and, despite growing disenchantment...