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...point when people have to serve as guinea pigs. Last week officials at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Md., announced that the first U.S.-approved human tests of a potential AIDS vaccine would begin this fall. The preparation, developed by MicroGeneSys of West Haven, Conn., consists of the outershell protein of the AIDS virus, which researchers hope will stimulate the body into producing an immune response against the intact invader. Says NIAID Director Anthony Fauci: "This is the first step in what will be a long process toward developing a vaccine to prevent AIDS...
DIED. Joseph E. Levine, 81, flamboyant movie mogul (The Graduate, The Producers, Carnal Knowledge); in Greenwich, Conn. Levine got his start in the 1950s by distributing films, later financing Federico Fellini's 8 1/2. Levine was involved as producer, distributor or backer in 500 films...
DIED. James Burnham, 81, pungent conservative columnist, author (The Managerial Revolution) and apostate Trotskyist who in 1955 became a founding editorial-board member of William F. Buckley's National Review; in Kent, Conn. The Chicago-born Burnham won renown for books (The Struggle for the World, The Coming Defeat of Communism) that warned of an inevitable U.S.-Soviet confrontation. In 1983 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom...
...Newtown, Conn...
Harvard Professor Robert Coles, child psychiatrist and author (Children of Crisis), at St. Joseph College, West Hartford, Conn.: Now our children are witnesses to scandal in politics, scandal in business, scandal in religion, cheap sleaze all over our newspapers. What is wrong with a decent and honorable country that has to go through this kind of great depression? One can only hope and pray for all of us that we will yet again find our way and be worthy of what this country is all about: a decent respect for people, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...