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...women who work the graveyard shift sneak in for a cigarette. Says a cocktail waitress: "We're supposed to go to designated areas for our breaks, and otherwise the bosses want us out on the floor all the time." "The bosses" is the Las Vegas equivalent of "the Man," covering every rank of power from a floor supervisor to a casino manager to the Mob to God. The bosses are, almost without exception, men. "Dorks, all of them," says a cashier. "A boss asked me out last week. We'd go to the mountains, he said. You guessed...
Most malariologists agree that the ideal way to prevent the disease would be with a "cocktail" of vaccines for all three stages. Progress toward that end is now moving swiftly. Researchers in Geneva and Melbourne have been so successful in identifying antigens of the merozoite that they plan to begin animal tests of the vaccine by the end of the year. A gametocyte vaccine is being developed by Dr. Richard Carter at NIH, but much work remains to be done. An experimental vaccine for all three stages may be only a decade away, according to Pathologist Sydney Cohen...
...sorts, and experience a nagging itch to start questioning authority. A reader may even suspect that his opinion is worth just as much as that of any horn-rimmed oracle in the land. Beware. Lest a layman become so emboldened that he or she starts holding forth at cocktail parties without having done the homework, Cerf and Navasky offer the last words of John B. Sedgwick, a Union Army general at the Battle of Spotsylvania in 1864: "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist-" -By Donald Morrison
Shamie, of course, thinks otherwise. At a Young Republicans convention in Worcester last week, Shamie whipped out a letter from Reagan pledging neutrality in the primary race, and then went on to accuse Richardson of being too tied to the Georgetown cocktail circuit to adequately represent the state...
Theobald, though, accepted his disappointment with grace. The day the appointment was announced to employees, he was host at a cocktail party for Reed at the Club, a private dining room in the Citicorp Center on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. Said a bank officer: "Theobald was the one who did it, not Wriston. Tom invited people over to have drinks for John, the winner. It was a class act." -By Charles P. Alexander. Reported by Barry Kalb/New York