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Died. Maurice Hilleman, 85, low-profile microbiologist credited with developing some 40 vaccines--a record--and saving more lives than any other 20th century scientist; in Philadelphia. Persuaded to go to college by his brother, who thought he should aim higher than his job as a clerk at a local J.C. Penney, the Montana farm boy eventually took what turned out to be a three-decade-long job at pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. he developed eight of the 14 vaccines currently recommended to protect children against measles, mumps, hepatitis A and B, and chickenpox...
Commemorating victory over radical evil demands more than theater, history or politics. Among the purposes of remembrance are pedagogy (for those who were not there) and solace (for those too much there). But the highest aim of remembrance (for us, here) is redemption. The President and the Chancellor did indeed want this V-E day to bring some good from evil. But for that to happen at Bitburg will require more than two politicians. It will require an act of grace, and that is not for politicians--or other mortals--to dispense...
...retired real estate investor, became a national celebrity by issuing anti-new-Coke buttons and T shirts, setting up a hot line for disgruntled callers and threatening to bring a class-action suit to make the old recipe public. Mullins organized the Old Cola Drinkers of America, whose aim was to bring back the beloved soft drink. It did not matter that Mullins, in two blind tests, expressed a preference for new Coke over old Coke. He wanted his rum-and-Cokes to be just the way they always were...
...When areas are in flux, it is important that the Administration speak out." So said Attorney General Edwin Meese early this month, signaling the Justice Department's intention to take a more activist and aggressive posture toward the Supreme Court and its rulings. Last week Meese's agency took aim at a favorite target of President Reagan and many of his conservative supporters: the landmark 1973 Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court case, which struck down most legal restrictions on abortion. The Justice Department filed a 30-page amicus curiae brief asking the court to reverse its 7-to-2 decision...
...That aim, at least, has become a little easier to judge, now that the dust has settled. Heaven's Gate did not help United Artists, but it did not wreck it either. It was the symbolic point on which the company finally foundered, while the film itself, for which Bach has little remaining regard, endures. It was ecstatically reviewed in London when the uncut version was released there in 1983 and actually brought a few dollars' profit into the distribution coffers. Technology will ultimately settle the score. The full version of Heaven's Gate is available at the neighborhood video...