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...Boston ophthalmologist that he had tracked down 14 cases of blindness or near blindness among contact wearers and several hundred more of eye damage, all within three years. There was speculation that the damage might have come from impurities such as free acid in the methyl methacrylate plastic (akin to Plexiglas) used for the lenses...
Married. Richard Boiling, 47, newly divorced Democratic Congressman from Kansas City; and Jim Grant Akin, 35, blonde congressional lobbyist for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, daughter of a well-heeled Texas oilman and, until her divorce fortnight ago, wife of yet another; both for the second time; in Silver Spring...
...dirty-minded Harvard students are apparently ill-bred, licentious, decadent, lusty, oversexed, akin to the lower animals, undisciplined, and bent on destroying female virtue and jeopardizing stable society, the New England Journal of Medicine suggested in an editorial this week...
...etchings, 15 of which are included in this show, the watercolors of one of Europe's best-known graphic artists are exquisite linear abstractions. Friedlaender's soft-focus shadings on old parchment, brightened by occasional glimmers of red and blue, reveal a fancy and poesy akin to Klee. Through...
...Tensed Muscle." Phillips, an Anglican minister who resigned from his London parish in 1955, found the Old Testament much tougher going than the New, which was written in free and easy colloquial Greek that is akin in spirit to modern English. No Hebrew scholar, he discovered that almost every letter was a "tensed muscle" and that the style of the Old Testament possessed a "monolithic grandeur," requiring a language "which is both dignified and authoritative...