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The L.A. Times – Part One

Present Indications and Past Intimations In the small hours of Wednesday, April 20th, a supervisor walked into the Computer Operations room of the Los Angeles Times, carrying a cup of coffee. The supervisor was a very tall man — six foot six and, in the

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The Case for Public Financing

“I would pick up the telephone for a supporter before I would pick it up for someone else.” — Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska, to the New York Times   I have spent most of the past year watching lobbyists at work, talking to them

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Church Cowed by Uruguayan Military

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Next to a loyal army commander, there is nothing so important to a Latin American dictator as the blessing of the archbishop. Even when the Catholic Church is hostile — as it now is in many military regimes — no government actively

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West Point Careers: Mine

December 3, 1976   New York City — I have this recurring dream, sometimes it’s a nightmare, in which I’m back at West Point, still a cadet. All kinds of weird things are going on, like in a regular dream. Real people and real faces

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Who Wrote The American Cancer Society’s Denunciation of Hydrazine Sulfate?

“I think it was the ghost of Senator Joe McCarthy.” — Joseph Gold, M.D. With “Short Takes” On:   Spitball Fights Inside the FDA The Vitamin C Habit at High Government Levels Nicholas Von Hoffman’s Encouraging Words A Psychic Prediction of Israeli “Cancer Cure” Israeli

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Laetrile (2): The Apricot Agonists

Part 2 “By their fruits, ye shall know them.” – St. Matthew vii 20 With “Short Takes” on:   Betty Ford, Pat Brown, Sr. HHH Sloan-Kettering The Swine Flu Pat McGrady, Sr. This is part II of an analysis of the Laetrile controversy. In the

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West Point and Honor: What We Haven’t Told You

June 21, 1976   New Orleans, La. – I have come to this sweat-stained city on the Gulf Coast to interview a classmate, and to think about the honor scandal which over the past two months has cracked the granite upon which rests the United

Bob Elliott, a district manager for the Phillips Petroleum Co., goes over a point with Richard Malott.

No More Thankless Jobs: Behavior Techniques in Business

Ann Arbor, Mich. — David Lebowitz has a problem. One of his supervisors at the large hospital he manages in New York state is supposed to be interviewing new interns after their first six weeks on the job to tell them how they’re doing. The

udge and Mrs. Barrington Parker at a reception in Washington, D.C.

The Making of a Black Middle Class Family – The End of an Era

The end came suddenly so that although Rosa Victoria Jones Holloman had been ailing for over three years. It was something of a shook to learn that she had died. She had gotten frail and time had finally withered her. But although she remained bedridden