Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...office, Rockefeller transformed the Empire State. His proudest achievement was to expand the state university from 38,000 students on 41 campuses to 244,000 on 72. He added 50 state parks, 100,000 new housing units, 109 hospitals and nursing homes, and 348 sewage-treatment plants, which have effectively reduced pollution in the upper Hudson. His most controversial construction was the $1 billion-plus Albany Mall, an immense Brasilia-like complex to house the state government. It was denounced as "Rocky's Erector Set," but it is now a favorite of government workers and tourists alike...
...Communist takeover in 1949. Nearly five years ago, when he was China's Deputy Premier, Teng flew to New York to address the U.N. General Assembly, but he was not an official visitor; Washington and Peking did not have full diplomatic relations. This time Teng rates the complete ceremonial treatment. He is to spend at least five hours with President Carter during three sessions at the White House. He meets tout Washington in a dizzying three-day whirl of breakfasts and banquets, sightseeing tours and working lunches. He then embarks on a four-day cross-country fiesta that offers...
Many Britons decided to fight back on their own. In Reading, Orthopedic Surgeon Patrick Chesterman curtly told half a dozen union members who were waiting for treatment: "I'm terribly sorry, but I'm not serving trade unionists today." At the Dog and Partridge pub in Bury St. Edmunds, the owner's wife refused to serve lunch to two senior officers of the National Union of Public Employees. United Biscuits, a maker of cookies, persuaded a high court judge to issue an injunction against picketing truckers...
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat managed to hog the rug, but Gerald Ford didn't seem to mind not getting the full red-carpet treatment on his first visit to the Middle East. In Egypt, the former President stayed at the Aswan Oberoi along with another tourist, the Shah of Iran. Ford, accompanied by his wife Betty, also stopped off in Israel. "I came as a private citizen," he said, and hence felt little compunction about beating a hasty retreat from a dinner with Premier Menachem Begin. After all, Private Citizen Ford had a date to watch the Super Bowl...
...doctors began to worry. Reason: if fractured bones do not knit, the affected limb may eventually have to be amputated. Brachfield, 70, a retired New York City office worker, had heard from his physician that doctors at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center were experimenting with a treatment that uses electricity to mend broken bones. He tried it. After eight weeks of electrotherapy, Brachfield has shed cast and crutches and is walking normally again...