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...corporations will be making with the departure and destination cities requested by patients. A nonprofit organization begun in 1981, CAN in its first year flew 24 patients; it now arranges that many trips each month. So far, CAN has flown 259 sick people, many of them accompanied by a companion, more than 600,000 miles. Last month CAN won the President's Volunteer Action Award...
...pass a heroin bill have been defeated. This year she is closer than ever. The Compassionate Pain Relief Act would authorize the use of heroin over a four-year evaluation period for hospitalized terminal cancer patients. It has been approved at the committee level in the House, and a companion bill has been introduced in the Senate. The bills have the support of such diverse political leaders as conservative Republican Barry Goldwater of Arizona and liberal Democrat Henry Waxman of California...
...spring of 1934 I was fortunate to be chosen by Christina Hopkinson Baker, one-time presidential dean of Radcliffe, to be chauffeur-companion for her husband. George Pierce Baker, creator of Harvard's legendary 47 Workshop where O'Neill, Behrman, Woffe. Barry and other dramatists students, and founder of the Yale Department of the Drama Mr. Baker (he loathed being called "doctor") had had a mild stroke and needed someone to putter in the garden with him and take him on occasional drives through the mountains from his country home in Silver Lake New Hampshire...
...have a way with men," says Lytton Strachey to his endlessly adoring companion, Dora Carrington. "I wish I knew your secret...
...Life Extension Companion, Pearson and Shaw