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...both parties the month-long runoff campaign was more clownish than astute. The Democrat, for example, picked on the Republican's quick temper and produced one nasty story from a former Hutchison aide. In 1991 Hutchison, enraged that her assistant Sharon Ammann (daughter of former Texas Governor John Connally) was too slow locating a phone number of a political supporter, "just lost it," said another former employee who corroborated Ammann's account. Hutchison "hit Sharon with a notebook and kept hitting her." Hutchison denied the incident. Ammann remained adamant that it had occurred. Both took polygraph tests -- and passed...
...John Marin's watercolors of the New York skyline or the Empire State Building itself, surging upward before the astonished eyes of Gotham at the rate of one floor a day? A relief sculpture by Charles Biederman or the prodigious steel catenaries of Othmar H. Ammann's design for the George Washington Bridge...
Children of drug addicts and bisexuals seem to be another vulnerable group. Among the unclassifiable 6% are several children born to addicted parents. Pediatric Immunologist Arthur Ammann of the University of California at San Francisco has presented the most compelling evidence of parental transmission of AIDS: a 30-year-old, drug-addicted prostitute whose four daughters all developed symptoms of the immune disorder. The fact that each baby had a different father and that the mother has no sign of a hereditary disease suggests that the cause was not genetic. "Our only option is an infectious cause," says Ammann...
...inoculating a group of 77 vulnerable youngsters with a prototype pneumonia vaccine. All had sickle-cell anemia, a genetic disorder largely confined to blacks that, besides inflicting other damage, impairs the spleen's ability to filter dangerous bacteria out of the blood. Even after two years, Dr. Arthur J. Ammann and his colleagues said, not a single patient had developed a pneumococcus infection; the only reaction from the shots in the arm was a little swelling and a short-lived fever...
Hippie Heroes. Although Wisconsin v. Yoder was the first Supreme Court case in the long history of the Amish in the U.S., the Amish have always been a people apart, at odds with society. Their founder, Jakob Ammann, was a Mennonite bishop in 17th century Switzerland. After Ammann clashed with the sect's leaders over fine points of observance and demanded strict excommunication of backsliders, he and his followers broke away in 1693 and became the Amish. They sought refuge in America after William Penn's colony became a haven of religious freedom...