Word: scandinavian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Warren's success as a prosecutor inexorably pushed him toward a political career. Bluff, blond, big as a bear (6 ft. 1 in., over 200 lbs.), with a reassuring Scandinavian air of wholesomeness, he came across as the ideal public man. He had a family to match. In 1925 he married a widow of Swedish descent, Nina Palmquist Meyers, adopted her son and then sired five children of his own. An inveterate joiner (Masons, Elks, et al.) with a loose, easy "How are yuh, good to see yuh" handshaking style, he was a Republican whose personal constituency crossed party...
Some nations, like the Scandinavian countries, take good care of their aged. But not the U.S., where about a million American elderly spend their last years in nursing homes. In these homes, says Mary Adelaide Mendelson, a Cleveland community-planning consultant who has spent the past ten years investigating the nursing-home industry, they are often ignored, sometimes mistreated and generally exploited. Despite the $3.5 billion in federal, state and private funds that are poured into U.S. nursing homes each year, she writes in her recently published book Tender Loving Greed (245 pages; Knopf; $6.95), conditions in many homes...
...America. The colonial origins of the United States are still reflected in a cultural inferiority complex that carries over into politics. A cabinet reshuffle in a western European democracy gets more attention in the press than a coup d'etat in Central America; the lingering death throes of a Scandinavian king consistently merits more attention than the demise of an el Presidente. The Monroe Doctrine took care of Latin America once and for all; we haven't had to think about it since. As Gabriel Garcia Marquez writes in No One Writes to the Colonel, to outsiders "South America...
There may be some yet unknown hereditary factor that fosters alcoholism. Dr. Donald Goodwin, a psychiatrist at Washington University in St. Louis, studied the case histories of 133 Scandinavian men who had been separated from their natural parents and raised by foster parents. The sons of alcoholic fathers were four times as likely as the sons of nonalcoholics to be alcoholics themselves. Similar studies by Goodwin of twins raised by different families seem to offer even stronger support for some genetic explanation. Most researchers are reluctant to accept such biological determinism as the sole cause, but many agree with Goodwin...
Hinting darkly that some Scandinavian and Communist countries already employ such techniques, Western coaches and trainers have been searching for years for a safe, drugless way of improving athletes' performances. Swedish researchers may now have developed a technique that can do just that. In a series of experiments at Stockholm's Institute of Gymnastics and Sports, Dr. Bjorn Ekblom gave physical education students transfusions of their own red blood cells, which carry oxygen to muscles and other tissues. The result was the kind of boost in endurance that could mean the difference between a gold medal and none...