Word: england
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President reserved his bitterest tones for the condition of the hostages, who he said were "bound and abused and hreatened," despite Iran's assurances of good treatment. In private, Carter used even stronger language.* He complained to a delegation of New England Democrats that the Iranian militants were brainwashing the hostages by isolating them from each other and telling them that they had been abandoned by the U.S. The President said that the hostages have not been allowed to bathe or change their clothes, that some have been punished for speaking and that others have been threatened at pistol point...
...Hershey Medical Center found that infections of the amniotic fluid cushioning the fetus, and the subsequent death of the baby, were more frequent among women who had intercourse in the month before delivery than in those who abstained. Also, according to his report in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, certain other problems, including respiratory distress and jaundice, were twice as common in infants whose mothers had been sexually active in their last month...
James D. Watson, former professor of Biochemistry, and Francis Crick of Cambridge University in England, won the Nobel Prize in the early '60s for discovering that DNA exists as a "right- handed double helix," resembling a spiral staircase that turns clockwise...
...ability to cope with stress may improve one's health more than giving up cigarettes and alcohol or losing weight, according to an article published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine by a Harvard Psychology professor...
...Gatto '69, who led Tufts to its first unbeaten-untied football season in 48 years, was named coach of the year yesterday by the New England Football Writers Association...