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...getting onto the boards of charities, hospitals or universities. The discreet jockeying for such appointments can be intense. Perhaps the most prestigious board is that of Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, which includes such former chief executives as American Telephone's Cleo Craig, Texaco's Augustus C. Long, Jersey Standard's Monroe J. Rathbone, and B.B.D.&O.'s Bruce Barton, along with some distinctly unretired figures, such as General Motors' Frederic Donner and U.S. Steel's Roger Blough...
Died. John Augustus Larson, 72, Canadian-born psychiatrist who, while doing research with the Berkeley, Calif., police force in 1921, correlated medical devices measuring skin temperature, blood pressure and breathing rate to develop the first lie detector; of a heart attack; in Nashville, Tenn...
...Smells. Packing executives last week were urged to look even further by Dr. Augustus B. Kinzel, president of the National Academy of Engineering. Said Kinzel: "Get away from the idea that a steak is a steak is just a steak.' He suggested that a laser beam instead of a knife be used to cut meat with tissue-thin precision and that special blades patterned after the cryogenic needles now used in brain surgery be used to cut and cauterize at the same time. He believes that superhot temperatures can be employed to create new meat textures. Chemicals could also...
...tipped Turkish cigarettes, Michelangeli has made only a few recordings because he has "never quite been satisfied with the quality of the sound." On tour he travels with his own Steinway ("Can you imagine Oistrakh playing with Stern's violin?") and personal piano tuner, 71-year-old Cesare Augustus Tallone. With a surgeon's knowledge of the piano's inner workings, Michelangeli treats his Steinway like a high-strung child, recently relinquished it to be overhauled, explaining: "It's still too young and hasn't been broken in yet." For the Paris concert, Tallone scoured...
...refused to say whether he will run or not, De Gaulle looked and sounded very much the compleat candidate. He was also in imperial form. At Provins, the mayor, who happens also to be De Gaulle's Information Minister Alain Peyrefitte, trumpeted: "Our town has received sovereigns: Philip Augustus, Charles VII in the company of Joan of Arc, Napoleon. But we have never received a President of the Republic. When this President is called General de Gaulle, our honor is redoubled by joy." Without a blink, De Gaulle replied: "Your reception, which moves me and makes me happy...