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...annual meeting of stockholders last week in Chicago, Chairman Thomas Wyman affirmed his company's defiance toward the would-be raider. Before a crowd of 300 shareholders and 80 reporters, Wyman lashed out at Fairness in Media, a North Carolina-based conservative group and potential Turner ally that wants to see CBS taken over in order to end what it sees as a liberal bias in the network's news division. Declared Wyman: "Those who seek to gain control of CBS in order to gain control of CBS News threaten its independence, its integrity--and this country...
...kidnaping and rape eight years ago because she feared she was pregnant by her boyfriend, Judge Samuels weighed her statements against what he had heard at the 1979 trial. He concluded she was less believable now and seemed to have a "selective recollection" of events. As Samuels told a Chicago Sun-Times reporter last week, "Her demeanor was totally different...
...polyp suggests it has been growing for a long time, perhaps years or decades. Even before the conference, however, other physicians were questioning why it had not been detected earlier either by a colonoscopic inspection or a barium enema. Said Dr. Stephen Hanauer, a gastroenterologist at the University of Chicago: "The bottom line was, if he had either blood in his stool or a polyp last year, then our way of dealing with that is to recommend examination of the entire colon for polyps." The President's doctors stood fast, explaining that they had decided against a scan...
...keep our priorities straight. Revenge may make us feel better, but it is no deterrent to future acts of terrorism. It is precisely this tribal logic, which is so prevalent in Arab lands, that keeps feuds going for generations. Joseph Wechsler Chicago Assembly-Line Surgery...
...survivor of the bombing who is now the director of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. What he saw was the suffering of people and the destruction of a city. The second view is that of a physicist who witnessed the first successful nuclear chain-reaction experiment in Chicago in 1942, worked on the Bomb at the Los Alamos laboratory and flew in the yield-measuring instrument plane beside the Enola Gay. Later he was the director of Los Alamos. What he saw was the effort of American scientists to win the war and the developing partnership of science...