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Next, there was the "Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace" in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria in March 1949, where U.S. left-wingers applauded the U.S.S.R.'s "fight for peace." Cried U.S. Playwright Clifford (Waiting for Lefty) Odets: "I cannot blame the Soviet Union because an apocalyptic beast is running loose in our world today, and its name is money, money, money...
...Michalek gave100-milligram injections to Jack Clifford, 30, a lab technician, and Mrs. Ardys Pearson, 26, a secretary. As he reached for the methadon bottle to give the much smaller injections to another secretary and himself, the physician drew back in shock. He had used that bottle the first time. He looked quickly at Mrs. Pearson; she was already in deep distress. Dr. Michalek called for antidotes. Then he picked up the phone and told the dean: "I think that maybe I might have made a mistake on the dosage, perhaps...
There was no perhaps about it. Dr. Michalek had given tenfold doses of methadon to both Clifford and Mrs. Pearson. He injected antidotes, and stimulants (oxygen, Benzedrine, adrenalin) were given later in Dakota Hospital. But within 24 hours of what started as a routine experiment, Dr. Michalek stood by Clifford's bedside as he died, then at Mrs. Pearson...
...mile run: Frank Efinger (Y); Warren Clifford...
Meanwhile, Clifford Peace had been considering what kind of minister he wanted to be. As chaplain at a replacement depot in England during World War II, he talked to thousands of men. "I saw statistics turn into people," he says. "I knew then that I wanted to deal with people as individuals, and not just shoot into the covey...