Word: sickness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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EUGENE AUGER always wanted to be Santa Claus, even when he was a young businessman selling cars, real estate and insurance in Stockton, Calif. Today he is a sick old man of 76 with a failing heart and a blood condition that has already caused the amputation of one leg. But between his youth as a hustling salesman and an old age spent in a dim house, he was Santa Claus, and he built a town to prove...
...campus of Kent State University, that monument to how wrong the nation's life can become, Gilligan announced that he will form a state volunteer corps, enlisting Ohio's 700,000 college students, to help part-time to clean up polluted streams, care for the sick, work with police and otherwise abandon their privacy to coax some improvement in their communities...
Violent Reaction. The dissident diabetologists accused the FDA of "unprecedented interference with the practice of medicine," and charged it with damaging the welfare of a million diabetics. As for the U.G.D.P. report, they noted that all diabetics are susceptible to cardiovascular disease. The study included unusually sick diabetics, they argued, so it was unfairly weighted against oral drugs. Because the raw data are still unpublished, the protesters added, the findings are almost impossible to refute...
...fact, only a stroke of bad luck and the humanity of Crimson coach Bill Brooks prevented Harvard from breaking its record of most points scored-84. Brooks, for example, chose to use standout Steve Krause in only one event since Krause had been sick the preceding week...
...unhappiness and discontent." It may well be, if some of its extreme tenets are adopted. But chances are that society will heed only the movement's legitimate demands. All the rest-motivated by what Helen Lawrenson calls the "splenetic frenzy of hatred for men" voiced by "these sick, silly creatures"-is likely to remain unacceptable to all but the sickest and the silliest...