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...calls," she twittered gaily, dropping her business card in his soup. Giggles, apologies-and before the evening was over Ewell had signed. She wined and dined Tony Perkins for eight months until he hired her. She pursued Paula Prentiss and Husband Dick Benjamin even through Paula's nervous breakdown, visiting her at the hospital "when no one else would," recalls Benjamin; five years later they signed. Grins former Partner Korman: "She would have made the best Electrolux salesman of them...
...MESELSON, professor of Biology. Meselson's testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1969 helped bring about President Nixon's decision that year to end the stockpiling of chemical and biological weapons. Meselson later warned Senate committees that American use of tear gas in Vietnam contributed to the breakdown of taboos against employing such weapons...
...everyone who occasionally writes a pamphlet qualifies as a journalist, the day might come when it would be nearly impossible to get anyone with important private information to testify against his will. Our current system of criminal justice would be radically reduced in efficiency, possibly to the point of breakdown...
...Lemmon wakes in the morning screaming-and he is worse off than he knows. Before the day is out he will have to see about having his clothing factory in Long Beach burned for the insurance money; introduce the new fall line of Capri Casuals; endure a brief nervous breakdown; inhale a joint or two of cannabis; sleep with an aging love child off the Sunset Strip; dream of a pop apocalypse populated by everyone from Bobby Kennedy to James Earl Ray; and recite lines like "I wanna walk in the kind of rain that never washes perfume away." Under...
...only professional category in which the CEA found a steady and large increase is editors and reporters. In 1970 women made up 41% of that category, v. 25% in 1940. With much reason, even this figure is questioned by newswomen, and the CEA has no separate breakdown of the number of editors...