Word: arbors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strange events sent a chill through the sprawling Veterans Administration Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich. Within a six-week period in the summer of 1975, 27 patients, many of them in the intensive-care unit, suffered mysterious breathing failures. Several were stricken more than once, and eleven of the patients died (TIME, March 22, 1976). After an investigation by the FBI. two young Filipino nurses who worked in that section of the hospital were arrested. They were charged with dosing some of the stricken patients with the muscle relaxant Pavulon, which is a synthetic version of curare, the lethal plant...
...Donnelly Ann Arbor, Mich...
...Harvard Coop, which has one of the biggest book departments in the East, reports a dramatic boom in Trollope, and stores in Ann Arbor, Mich., home of the University of Michigan, say that they cannot stock enough of his books to satisfy customers. In New York City, Brentano's notes a steady sale; for a heady three-week period in February and March, Trollope was even one of their best sellers. Taking careful account of the market, Berkley paperbacks has brought out a one-volume condensation of the six Palliser novels-with 250,000 copies already in print...
Rock audiences are no longer stunned by such performances, and Iggy Pop has a great deal to do with acclimating the public into this easy acceptance of the sensational. Ten years ago, Iggy and his Ann Arbor band, the Stooges, launched their careers and the genre of punk rock with a blend of nihilism and unheard-of histrionics. Iggy vomited on stage, stabbed himself with pencils, burned his skin with hot wax, flung himself onto broken glass and even leaped off the stage to harass the audience physically. Like a modern Dadaist, Iggy's style was confrontation, and his musical...
Cathy Zawacki Ann Arbor, Mich...