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...Japanese technology company will control a major position on the Continent, just in time for the integration of the European market in 1992. Though no E.C. official has spoken against the takeover, strong opposition may soon be heard. Says Tim Marrable, who follows the computer industry for Kleinwort Benson in Tokyo: "You can more or less expect France to come out and accuse Britain of bringing another Japanese Trojan horse into Europe." Analysts anticipate a heated debate about whether the Community should revoke ICL's rights to participate in E.C.-sponsored high-tech research projects now that the computer maker...
...medical care with mind- enhancing therapies. Last year for the first time more of the patients at the New England Deaconess Hospital's Mind-Body Clinic had been referred there by doctors than by friends and family. At the clinic, patients learn in groups how to achieve Dr. Herbert Benson's relaxation response, a physical state of deep rest. Nearly 80% of hypertension patients lower their blood pressure and require less medication; cancer patients report less nausea during chemotherapy. "Does it prolong life?" asks Dr. Benson. "We don't know. Some people promise that, but I think they are jumping...
...threat, the Fur Information Council of America last month launched an ad campaign stressing freedom of choice: "Today fur. Tomorrow leather. Then wool. Then meat." Bernard Groger, co-publisher of the trade magazine Fur World, says, "Nobody can tell the American woman what to wear." Warns Seattle furrier Nicholas Benson: "You're seeing signs of terrorism. People are afraid to wear furs on the streets because of what might happen...
Three years ago Robert Benson, 42, a white meatpacker in Kansas City, married Priscilla Johnney, 46, a black nurse. She has six children from a previous marriage and cares for three handicapped foster children, two white and one black...
Cover: Photograph by Harry Benson...