Word: liverence
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...nearly two years in New Delhi as U.S. Ambassador, debating with Indian neutralists, Harvard Professor John Kenneth Galbraith, 54, was getting "a little uncomfortable at the implication that those who help you are the threat to your policy." Now, weary from 16-hour days and suffering from an undefined liver complaint, he will return from the New Frontier and go back to Harvard next fall...
...Powell is one of the House's most notorious absentees: he has responded on the average to less than half the roll-call votes over the last decade. All this has contributed to the feeling expressed last week by one disgusted colleague: "He is a demagogue, a high liver, a playboy and a charlatan.'' Said another: "I don't know exactly how you decide who's the worst Congressman, but Adam's certainly in the finals...
...medical dangers claimed are of two sorts: physiological and psychological. To guard against physiological injury, the researchers tried to find out where physiological injury might occur (e.g., heart or liver), and in early studies, required a medical examination: "Subjects who volunteered for the study were given medical screening by the University Health Services or the prison psychiatrist [some subjects were prisoners], and psychological screening by a group of clinical psychologists." (R.Metzner, G. Litwin, G. Weil, "The relation of expectation and setting to experiences with psilocybin: a questionnaire study," dittoed, 1962). After a period in which no ill effects were reported...
...thrill his friends but cannot be parodied on records because they are not in the public domain -big brassy Broadway tunes like 76 Sol Cohens and the entire score of South Passaic (Younger Than Springstein, There Is Nothing Like a Lox). Movie tunes too. Moon River becomes "Chopped liver, rolled up in a ball...
...Chang and Eng in life, had probably been right. Without X rays or other modern diagnostic aids, they could not be sure of how much of the twins' vital organs projected into their unifying band. But the autopsy disclosed that only a small part of Eng's liver projected into the attachment to his twin. If a bold surgeon had arrived in time after Chang's death, he probably could have saved...