Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subpoenaed documents on covert intelligence operations. If the full House votes to cite Kissinger, a move that would be unprecedented, the case would go to the courts. Kissinger said last week the President had directed him to withhold the material on the grounds of Executive privilege. The Secretary, visibly upset and reacting strongly, said he regretted the committee's action, declaring it raised "serious questions all over the world about what this country is doing to itself and what the necessity is to torment ourselves like this, month after month." One of his top aides reported that Kissinger...
...ical College, heart attacks tend to occur in "outer-directed" families-those that stress the need for success and approval by outsiders. Cancer tends to appear in "inner-directed" families. Such families often channel their emotional response to stress internally through the nervous system. This inward surge may upset the body's hormonal balance and, perhaps, immunological processes-two mechanisms that play a significant role in combating cancer...
Died. Hugh Auchincloss Brown, 96, engineer who believed that vast polar icecaps would wipe out civilization in this century; in New York City. Brown, author of Cataclysms of the Earth (1967), predicted that the accumulation of ice at the Antarctic would upset the planet's equilibrium and cause it to flip, reversing the North and South Poles. If the catastrophe comes to pass, New York, according to Brown, will be buried under 13 miles of water...
...Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) named Harvard quarterback Jim Kubacki player of the week Monday, for his performance in Harvard's upset victory over Brown...
...prevailing opinion within the party was that Ford had hurt his chances, although the President himself predicted after the changes that he would be a winner "right up to the end of 1976." Quite a few Republicans, especially conservatives, were unsettled by the sacking of Schlesinger. Others were upset by the way Ford handled the whole shuffle. Said former California Republican Chairman Gordon Luce: "People are asking, 'What is going on in Washington? Why the musical chairs? Who's in charge?' Such a massive change has to raise the question of whether the Administration is in disarray...