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...absence he wants to employ: he careens between badly Beard's deceased wife Leonora starts telephoning him from England. She complains that he has forsaken her, that he has been duped by the doctors and that she, very much alive, is now coming to Rome. Beard is forced to cope with his guilt; he wonders if, like many widowers he is secretly happy to exchange an old wife for a young lover. After all, he asks, how much great literature has been created by widowers bemoaning the loss of their wife? (Burgess is in no danger of reversing that trend...
...cope with the special problems of the elderly, New York police have set up senior citizen robbery units in all five boroughs. One of the units' main jobs is to persuade old people to bring charges against their attackers. The police make special arrangements to eliminate the tedium and confusion of court appearances. Detectives also lecture groups of old people on how to survive in the city (e.g., don't go home if you think you're being followed-find a cop). In addition, the police have created a few "safe corridors" for the elderly: thoroughfares...
...brought on by a toxic substance or some unusual virus-though they appear to have excluded bacteria. Admitted Dr. William E. Parkin, chief epidemiologist of the Pennsylvania state health department: "It may be one year, five years or a hundred years before our technology becomes efficient enough to cope with...
...Bother Me, I Can't Cope. A musical revue about, among other things, love, and involving soul, rock, folk, blues, gospel music, calypso and swing just for a start. Now with an all-black band at the Charles Playhouse, 76 Warrenton Street, in Boston. Tuesday through Friday at 8 p.m.; Saturday at 6 and 9:30 p.m.; Sunday...
...would deny them some sort of training. But why should they go into regular classrooms? According to proponents of integration, 1) handicapped children can achieve more academically and socially if they are not isolated, 2) a regular school setting can help them better cope with the "real" world when they grow up, and 3) exposure to handicapped children helps normal children understand individual differences in people...