Tidbits and Outrages
Tidbits AND Outrages Family Newspaper Story The Washington office of the Brown, Dowling public relations firm is headed by Keven Bellows. Her husband, James Bellows, is editor of The Washington...
...The operation quickly caught on as a standard medical procedure...
...However, after a few years, gastric freezing was abandoned...
...Notes from the Underground Thomas Crosby and Isabelle Shelton of The Washington Star recently wrote a question-and-answer column explaining some of the foul-ups in the Washington subway system, Metro...
...It never apologized to either Metro or area taxpayers for the foul-up...
...New Struggles on the h t i - h c k t Front This is an exact quote from the National Public Radio show, “All Things Considered” with Eleanor Holmes Norton on August 4. The interviewer is DavidEnsor: “Ensor: ‘Mrs...
...Lee Metcalf (D-Mont...
...Metro, believe it or not, rejected the straps because (1) they were considered unsightly, (2) trains eventually would arrive so frequently-every 90 seconds-most people would not have to stand, and (3) blind people would bump into the straps...
...The ‘relief that the patients reported was traced to nothing more than the treatment’s placebo effect...
...How does it feel?’ “Norton: ‘[laughing] When I look around the country and see how many families with white male heads make that much money by themselves, I don’t-I don’t-consider myself nearly as much-nearly as much-a member of a privileged class as I might.’ ” Get-Well-Quick Schemes Some years ago, there was a book written called m e I))ranny of the Experts...
...Her husband, James Bellows, is editor of The Washington Star...
...Consider, for example, shark repellent, a curious case recently brought to light by Sen...
...Hundreds of thousands of dollars could have been saved if Lafayette Park had been torn up during construction but the National Park Service said no...
...The Secret Service vetoed a proposed Metro line under Pennsylvania Avenue, so Metro goes under Lafayette Park instead...
...Those who have had occasion to don a military life jacket will recall that a teabag-size container labeled ‘Shark Chaser’ is tied, amulet-like, to each of these devices...
...We wonder what the Star’s editorial position was when it was disclosed that Marion Javits, wife of the senator from New York, was doing public relations work for Iran...
...Bellows’ clients is the Japanese government, and the Star runs a lot of articles about Japan...
...We didn’t say more about it because we thought it would become a major story...
...Contained in the bag is a water-soluble chemical that is supposed to be to sharks as the crucifN is to vampires...
...Your Friends at Ford The Ford Motor Company has disclosed that in 1973 it discovered safety hazards in its 1972 Torino and Montego models but did not recall the cars until a mechanic was killed by the defect last year...
...Both Rafshoon and Caddell have White House credentials that permit them to come and go to the executive mansion as often as they please, Shogan reports, and both sometimes sit in on staff meetings, particu larly the gatherings of Hamilton Jordan’s political staff...
...It’s regrettable,” says Henry Ford 11, “that we did not get on this more quickly...
...Three years ago, Navy researchers reviewed this disquieting fact and on their recommendation the Navy decided to stop using the stuff-after over 30 years of routinely attaching it to life jackets...
...But it hasn’t...
...However, a short time later the Park Service itself tore up the park to put in two new fountains...
...Daniel S. Greenberg, the science writer, recently pointed out that we should continue to beware of the tyrants: “The First Law of Expert Advice states: Don’t ask the barber whether you need a haircut...
...Together they earn more than that in taxpayers’ money each year...
...Studies showed that the freezing did not destroy the acid-producing cells, which, as it turned out, was quite fortunate, since their destruction would have been harmful to the patient...
...So the Defense Department went on buying it, year after year...
...rwo Hats Can Be Profitable Last month in “Tilting at Windmills” we mentioned in passing that the maritime industry had paid Gerald Rafshoon, the President’s media advisor, to run an advertising and public relations campaign on behalf of the oil cargo preference bill...
...But the tricky procedures involved in carrying out gastric freezing sometimes produced miserable side effects, among them more ulcers and bleeding, as well as complications that sometimes moved fatal...
...From November 1969 to February 1974, it bought 84,450 packets, at a cost of $345,000, though scientific doubts about its efficacy were expressed as far back as 1958 and later tests demonstrated that sharks have no aversion to eating Shark Chaser...
...Why is there no station across from the white House...
...Put into service by the U. S. Navy during World War 11, Shark Chaser, like defective parachutes, rarely prompted reports from disappointed users...
...So the Nortons are one of those couples included in what the press called the $100,000-club...
...Carter’s pollster, Pat Caddell, was also paid for polling work he did on behalf of the maritime lobby...
...Proceeding with our examination of modern-day witchcraft, we turn to a case of the 1960s, involving gastric freezing, a technique that was supposed to destroy the stomach cells that produce acids associated with duodenal ulcers...
...Norton’s husband is Edward Norton, appointed by the Carter Administration to be Deputy Generid Counsel to the Department of Housing, Development, and Welfare...
...So hand grips are provided on the backs of the seats and some floor-to-ceiling metal bars have been installed, even though blind people may bump into them also...
...Here is a sampling: “Why aren’t there straps to hang onto in the subway cars...
...The only reporter to give the story the attention it deserves is Robert Shogan of The Los Angeles Times, who has disclosed that the industry gave Rafshoon’s firm contracts of $750,000 for advertising and $250,000 for public relations...
...One of I Mrs...
Vol. 9 • October 1977 • No. 8
