Word: blinds
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...etiquette, the sort of "social amenity" that was really a form of discrimination. What bothered her was the traditional Southern practice of addressing all Negroes by their first names, never with the title of Mr., Mrs. or Miss. In a court of law, Mary Hamilton thought, justice should be blind to the color of her skin. And after she was arrested for taking part in an Alabama civil rights demonstration, she stuck to her belief...
Sold by Cincinnati's William S. Merrell Co. under the trade name MER/29, triparanol was supposed to lower the level of cholesterol in the blood and, presumably, reduce the risk of heart attacks. But too many people who took the drug later went bald, became impotent, or went blind from an unusual form of cataract. In applying for approval of MER/29, said FDA, Merrell improperly withheld information already in its files that triparanol had caused cataracts in animals...
...last week's Satevepost, Lennon's "graphospasms" were even hairier than the songs he helps write. "Little did he nose," writes Lennon "that the next day a true story would actually happen." He peoples his retelling of Treasure Island with Large John Saliver, Small Jack Hawkins, Blind Jew, Cpt. Smellit and Sten Gunn. "As far as I'm conceived," he says on the book jacket, "this correction of short writty is the most wonderfoul larf I've ever ready." A larf all the whee to Barclays', no dute...
Despite these agonies, or because of them-Wiener himself could not decide-the precocious child was reading ponderous books at the age of six. His shortsighted eyes almost went blind when he was eight, but he graduated from the Ayer, Mass., high school at twelve and got his B.A. from Tufts College at 15. Harvard gave him his doctorate in mathematics when he was 18 and kept him on as a lecturer...
Reluctant Rethink. Publication of the petition brought angry cries from Stockholm's "cultural radicals"-the powerful Establishment of secular-minded writers, editors and pedagogues who have been instrumental in, making Sweden a sociological laboratory. "The letter wants to introduce blind authoritarianism!" roared one newspaper, Dagens Nyheter. Authoress Kristina Ahlmark Michanek, 25, a free-love advocate whose latest tome, For Friendship's Sake, is a Swedish bestseller, declared indignantly: "It is a human right to go to bed with someone you like without being insulted by society." After all, she and others pointed out, prostitution is fast dying...