Word: warrens
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With a top of the morning to you, Mrs. Guv'nor, Chief Justice Earl Warren, 75, greeted Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller, 40, and Nelson Jr., 2, as they crossed paths in London's Grosvenor Square. Warren was on the first leg of a trip to Israel to attend the dedication of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Forest near Jerusalem. Happy was keeping busy sightseeing with Nelson Jr. and her brood of four by her first marriage, while she waited for the New York legislature to adjourn so Daddy could join them all on a month-long European vacation...
...anesthesia, "that these are troubling charges. They have grown out of troubling practices." Other medical investigators, while agreeing with his basic tenets, are equally troubled by the way he used his data. The servicemen who did not get penicillin for strep throats, for example, were at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming. When Western Reserve University's Dr. Charles H. Rammelkamp Jr. began studying them in early 1949, no one knew whether penicillin was indeed the indispensable or even the best treatment. Rammelkamp had to continue his tests through 1953 to disprove another investigators claim that penicillin...
INQUEST: THE WARREN COMMISSION AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF TRUTH by Edward Jay Epstein. 224 pages. Viking...
Despite the thoroughness of the 26-volume Warren Commission report, many people in the world prefer to ignore rational explanations when the irrational can be made to seem so much more melodramatic. Edward Jay Epstein's book will certainly help feed the grimly suspicious. Inquest is the enlargement of a master's thesis that he wrote at Cornell. It has much thesis, but little that is masterly...
After diligently scanning the public record, sifting through an accumulation of evidence in the National Archives, and interviewing five of the seven members of the Warren Commission and ten of its top staffers, Epstein concluded that the commission was "extremely superficial" in its investigation of the President's murder. He bases some of his criticism on the fact that the commission members actually heard little of the testimony in person, but he fails to mention that all members received a full transcript of each day's proceedings and were free to ask questions or raise points when they...