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...Look," Lerner explains about RTH's decision to accept Harvard's offer, "if I wanted to have someone drive my car to New York City, and a guy says he is going down to New York and he would be willing to take my car but only by flat-bed trailer, I'll take it, because otherwise my car doesn't get to New York, at all." Lerner says, "Harvard doesn't give away ice in the winter," but the University has taken certain risks that it didn't have to take simply to make sure that the housing project...
Even in his Houston hospital bed, Astronaut Donald "Deke" Slayton, 51, was flying high. Shortly after his July 24th return from the Apollo-Soyuz space flight, during which Slayton and fellow Crew Members Thomas Stafford and Vance Brand had inhaled poisonous fumes, doctors spotted a tiny lesion on Deke's left lung. Because of Slayton's age and past history as a chain smoker, a better than 50-50 chance of malignancy was predicted. "He's an extremely lucky man," said Dr. Charles Berry after announcing that Slayton's tumor was benign. Not only will Deke...
...million votes. Now, however, it turns out that Mrs. Ford has still more to say about her once private life-even when unasked. In an interview with Myra MacPherson published in the current issue of McCall's, she recalled the day the Fords' king-size bed had been moved into the White House and added that inquisitive reporters had questioned her about "everything but how often I sleep with my husband, and if they'd asked me that, I would have told them." Thus challenged, the interviewer apparently felt obliged to inquire what answer she had prepared...
Fernwood Flasher. That night Mary snuggles up to Tom, who is in bed loading a pistol he has bought to protect his family from the mass murderer. She nibbles his ear. Barks Tom: "Cut it out." Mary replies, "It's been five weeks." The Reader's Digest has counseled her to assert herself, but Tom has different advice: "Act like a woman." "You mean do nothing?" asks Mary. "That's right," says...
...Marriage Bed. She spent perhaps too much time in the library, and even by Victorian standards she was unusually repressed and naive. On the eve of her marriage to Edward Wharton, Edith, then 23, went to her mother to ask about what goes on in the marriage bed. Her mother looked at her with icy disapproval. "You've seen enough pictures and statues in your life," she replied. "Haven't you noticed that men are . . . made differently from women? You can't be as stupid as you pretend." On that subject she was, however, and the marriage...