Word: wilmer
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...Washington firms employ more than 100 lawyers, and two-Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn (130 attorneys) and Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (110)-did not even exist 20 years ago. But the hottest growth area is the small new firm with a big name on its shingle. Among former Government luminaries who helped to open offices during the past two years: ex-Federal Trade Commission Chairman Lewis Engman, ex-Army Secretary Martin R. Hoffmann, ex-Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott and ex-CIA Director William Colby. Old-line firms also face competition from specialty firms staffed by former congressional counsels or agency...
...Sister Wilmer, who directs a staff of four other nuns of the Third Order of St. Francis, plus two registered nurses and two practical nurses, contrasted the present scene with what she had found on arrival in 1945: then all 60 of the hospital's beds were filled by patients who were very sick, not only from active leprosy and its complications but also from tuberculosis and kidney diseases. But even at that time, she said, there had been, naturally, a vast improvement in conditions and in nursing and medical care over what Father Damien had found when...
...Sister Wilmer reached Kalaupapa at a propitious moment. The first medications more effective than the Asian ancients' chaulmoogra oil had been developed by U.S. researchers, tested at the Public Health Service Hospital in Carville, and just released for use in Hawaii. The best-known and most widely used is dapsone (DDS). For those who also had tuberculosis, isoniazid was used. Still newer drugs include the potent antibiotic rifampin, and even thalidomide, which is administered to treat complications, but not for women of childbearing age. Collectively, these are indeed wonder drugs: when used promptly to treat newly discovered cases, says...
...Died. Wilmer Allison, 72, top-ranked tennis player in the U.S. in 1934 and '35 and longtime University of Texas coach; of an apparent heart attack; in Austin, Texas. A spectacularly aggressive player, Allison starred on the U.S. Davis Cup team for seven years and won the Wimbledon doubles competition with Partner John...
...1970?and has been losing ever since. He was defeated by the same man who beat him in 1974: Republican John Wydler, 52, who described Lowenstein as "an ultralibeal, a constant loser and a notorious carpetbagger." Another comeback effort fell short in North Carolina, where former National League Pitcher Wilmer ("Vinegar Bend") Mizell, 45, a Republican Congressman from 1968 to 1974, was defeated again by Democrat Stephen L. Neal, 42, an heir to the R.J. Reynolds tobacco fortune...