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Ervin has been plumping for an inquiry into the impact of Government data banks on individual rights since 1967, when he learned that the Department of Health, Education and Welfare was using stored information to blacklist scientists for their political views. Two years later, he heard about the Secret Service's data bank, which houses information on 50,000 persons, including some who are described vaguely as "professional gate crashers" and some who "insist upon personally contacting high Government officials for the purpose of redress of imaginary grievances." Ervin figured he just might fit into the latter category...
...women has gradually filtered back to Stillman. Holmes resident Linda Law-rence posted a sheet listing Health Services doctors a year ago, inviting "positive comments" after she had heard many complaints. The list is up in several Radcliffe dorms again this year. "Please," she said, "This is not a blacklist," but is intended simply to channel women to sympathetic doctors. "Why should a person get a lecture from a doctor who feels he has a right to do it and that's where his morals are?" she added...
...Blacklist. By no means a madhouse on a haunted hill, the hospital is run conscientiously by Dr. Duane Sommerness, who since becoming medical superintendent of the institution in 1956, has made notable improvements. When he took over, there were seven doctors for 3,000 patients; now the ratio is 30 to 1,688, with 1,070 other employees, a ratio recommended by the American Psychiatric Association. Today, 54% of the patients come of their own accord; 15 years ago, only 10% did so, and the average stay has been reduced from three years to less than twelve months...
...sweetness of Loretta Long, who plays his wife. She has been compared to a candy cordial, chocolate outside, syrup within. The rest of the cast is white: Bob McGrath, a singer with irrepressibly high spirits and voice; and Will Lee, an actor whose years on the McCarthy era blacklist made him perhaps more aware of deprivation. "I was delighted to take the role of Mr. Hooper, the gruff grocer with the warm heart," recalls Lee. "It's a big part, and it allows a lot of latitude. But the show has something extrathat sense you sometimes get from great...
...used to keep a blacklist of people we would not sell tickets to because of scalping violations, but we abandoned that several years ago," a Harvard ticket official said yesterday...