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...study was started in 1932 by the service's venereal-disease section. It involved 625 black men, mostly poor and uneducated, from the county surrounding Tuskegee, Ala., which then had the highest syphilis rate in the nation. Two hundred of the men did not have syphilis and served as a control group for comparison purposes; 425 had latent (and therefore noncommunicable) syphilis and received little, if any treatment for it. As an incentive to participate in the study, they were offered free treatment for any other illnesses, free hot lunches and free burial after autopsies were performed...
...Wallace delegates were bug-eyed. There on the podium at the convention was a certified member of Gay Liberation nonchalantly addressing the party while a small claque cheered him on. "Goddam," said Jess Lanier, mayor of Bessemer, Ala., though the gay plank did not pass. "Goddam. If that's what they're going to talk about, we're never going to get this party together again. They haven't got a dog's chance of electing a President on this platform. Damn, do they need Wallace...
...Miami Beach and see what ideological leverage he could apply with his 373 delegates. It has been for him a grim and courageous convalescence. After appearing at a Mass in Maryland and reading the 23rd Psalm, Wallace flew in an Air Force jet supplied by Richard Nixon to Montgomery, Ala., where, seated in his wheelchair behind a low, bulletproof lectern, he delivered an airport speech, a wan version of his old campaign rousers. Then he flew on to Miami. All the while, a stop-McGovern coalition led by Arkansas' Wilbur Mills continued its last-minute efforts. A small Washington...
...best of the entrees is the Filete ala Barnesa ($4.75) and it is a generous filet, always cooked to order. It's served with a mock bearnaise of melted butter, garlic and parsley, with heart of artichoke, boiled potatoes and a green salad. It cuts as easily with a fork as with a knife...
...Brattle Street, is a newcomer to Harvard Square. It serves frozen yogurt and vanilla and chocolate soft ice cream (ala Dairy Queen). This custard isn't ice cream and it comes out of a machine, but it is served in a come (albeit a safety cone) and it does the trick on a hot day. Yogurt comes, which come in three rotating fruit flavors, are $.25, Soft ice cream comes...