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Kenneth Huber Bristol...
...head of the pack was the Labor Party's Tony Benn, 58, spiritual leader of its militant left wing. Nine months after losing his Bristol seat in last year's general election, Benn was on his way back to Parliament, taking 46.5% of the Chesterfield by-election vote...
...Olympic hockey team is handsomely endowed by five major sponsors (Miller beer, Sasson clothes, Isuzu Motors, Bristol-Myers and Chock Full O' Nuts coffee) plus gate and television receipts from its 65-game exhibition tour; one televised match with the Soviet All-Stars in Lake Placid provided $500,000 of the $1.3 million budget, about a tenth of which is funded by the U.S. Olympic Committee. The ski team has 23 sponsors (including Oscar de la Renta, Texas Instruments, Subaru) and a $4.5 million budget. The "amateur" skiers can strike rich endorsement deals as long as the money is paid...
Fisher is one of a small number of American medical dissidents who have long opposed the indiscriminate use of mastectomies for breast-cancer patients. At a recent conference in Venice, Italy, sponsored by Bristol-Myers, he and a number of other U.S. doctors reported on their successes with more limited treatment. According to Dr. Samuel Hellman, physician in chief of New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, even patients with tumors as large as two inches in diameter may require nothing more than a lumpectomy followed by radiation. Though this approach involves removing even less tissue than Veronesi...
When Robin Phillips was 15 and a student at Britain's Bristol Old Vic, his impoverished rural parents provided him ? 1 a week for pocket money, obtained "by selling things from the house, including their wedding presents." The sacrifice bore fruit. At 20, Phillips was acting with Laurence Olivier; by the time he was 30, he was an established director in London's West End (Tiny Alice), on Broadway (Abelard and Heloise) and, by preference, in Britain's regional repertory theaters. His success was certified in 1973 when, at age 31, he won one of the most...