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...pneumonia and undergoing concurrent radiological treatment for what his wife, Actress Joan Plowright, describes as a "slight" cancer of the prostate; Elizabeth Taylor, 35, hobbling on crutches in and out of Princess Grace Hospital in Monte Carlo after a tumble aboard her rented vacation yacht Odysseia aggravated a chronic case of synovitis (knee inflammation) so badly that she may have to be operated...
...street walkers working at the beck of pimps and call of drugs, to expensive suburban call girls who keep Fanny Hill-style notes on their clients' bedroom peculiar ities. Last month the Miami Herald's women's page reported that 40% of the nation's chronic gamblers are women...
...University Police rarely get their man. To begin with, on campus crimes are usually of the petty and chronic variety that defies solution--stolen pocket-books (100 percent carelessness, Tonis affirms) and in the spring, bicycles. But most important, a campus-bound security force simply lacks the time, men, and training to do serious police work. Even Walsh, despite his clothing, does little real snooping. "He is not," Tonis admits with a trace of a smile, "like a James Bond or a private...
Under considerable pressure from some of his strongest Eastern supporters--Senators Javits, Scott, and Brooke, and Governor Rockefeller -- Romney chose his visit to Hartford last Friday as the proper time. He should be praised for ending his chronic irresolution...
...Sersich, another returning letterman hurler, broke his wrist playing intramural basketball and has been dropped from the roster. Losing its two big guns would be bad enough, but the Crimson will probably have to do without the services of sophomore star George Lalich, who is suffering from a chronic arm ailment...