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Sewell is 32 years old and looks like a strange cross between Abraham Lincoln and Mick Jagger. A graduate of Brazil's National School of Fine Arts, he also attended the University of Minnesota while running an art gallery in Minneapolis that displayed his neck tie designs. He visited California on a vacation once and decided to stay. Sewell's interest didn't run toward gallery art anyway, so once in California he became what he calls "an environmental artist." Now the proprietor of the Venice Flea Market, a Los Angeles head shop, Sewell says what he wants...
...Mecca. The shuttle is a drain on the country's foreign currency reserves. Beyond that, the government suspects that some Moslems go on the pilgrimage year after year for a more earthly reason than paying homage to Allah. As well as allowing them to venerate "the place where Abraham stood up to pray," the trip gives them an opportunity to smuggle home gold coin, jewelry and expensive cloth...
FRIDAY: Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here. Abraham Polonsky (blacklisted in the fifties as a fellow-traveler) wrote and directed thi hard-neadest in 1969. Robert Redford, Katherine Ross, and Robert Blake highnight the cast. CH. 7, 11:50 p.m. Color...
...attacks by Senator Joseph McCarthy and his House Un-American Activities Committee. There were two cases, one involving J. Robert Oppenheimer and another with John Paton Davies of the State Department, that drew nationwide publicity. But in Washington there was another case involving a minor Navy employee named Abraham Chasanow which attracted the attention of Anthony Lewis '48, a former Managing Editor of The Crimson who was working as a reporter for The Washington Daily News. Lewis was concerned about the case because Chasanow had little money to use for his defense and had been dismissed without due process. When...
...generally less healthy than heroin babies, and are born with a greater incidence of respiratory distress and jaundice. "Their symptoms of withdrawal last longer and worsen progressively," he says. Gartner has recently discovered a rare and particularly ominous methadone problem. Five babies born at the college's affiliate, Abraham Jacobi Hospital, showed no withdrawal signs until between two and three weeks after birth, by which time the infant is usually away from constant medical supervision. Says Gartner: "We presume that there is a large buildup of methadone in the baby, which he slowly uses up and then begins exhibiting...