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...slender anesthesiologist. After he first mesmerized her in February 1963 in order to break her cigarette habit, they saw each other "constantly." Later, she testified, Coppolino said of her husband: "That man has got to go." Then, she went on, the doctor gave her a drug with which to dispatch Farber. Her nerve failed twice, she said, and so she summoned Coppolino from his home up the street. After he administered injections to the ill and groggy Farber, Coppolino "pulled this pillow out from underneath my husband's head, and he put it over him, and he leaned...
...this 25th anniversary, there are still a few staffers here who can recall that frantic Sunday. The first inkling at TIME was a roar from a senior editor as he read the first A.P. wire dispatch. After the initial shock, everything went in orderly progression. Staffers who were on vacation streamed back to the office. With only 24 hours until deadline time (the magazine went to press on Monday nights then), the editors scrapped the planned cover on Walt Disney's elephant Dumbo in favor of the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Admiral Husband Kimmel. A new section...
...arriving, the Renaissance belongs to everyone. Spontaneously, a Committee to Rescue Italian Art (CRIA) was set up in the U.S. by museums and college art departments, with Jacqueline Kennedy as its active president. Its aim: to raise $2,500,000 for salvage operations. One of its first acts: to dispatch 16 expert restorers to the site to help out. But the biggest requirement is helping hands. One California art historian, Eve Borsook of Pasadena, who rescued 130,000 negatives of art objects from the Uffizi, rushed them to Harvard's Villa I Tatti in Florence, the former hilltop home...
Whatever future awaits long-distance trains, the rail is being considered a possible solution to the worsening problem of getting people in and out of big cities with dispatch, efficiency and safety. While one lane of a freeway can move only 2,400 persons an hour past a given point, a train can move 30,000. To encourage a revival of mass transit by rail, the Government gave the movement a nudge in 1961 with a law that henceforward mass transportation must be considered a part of city planning. With close to $200 million of loans and grants, Washington...
...Chicago, the Daily News endorsed Republican Charles Percy's bid to unseat Democratic Senator Paul Douglas, who is running for his fourth term. Douglas got the support of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch...