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...DIED. Edith H. Quimby, 91, biophysicist whose research helped to pinpoint the optimal dosage of radiation for various medical purposes, particularly its use in cancer therapy; in New York City. Part of the atom bomb-building Manhattan Project during World War II, she was nonetheless a Cassandra who warned about the dangers of radiation as early as the 1920s...
Indeed, Montand, with his sad, weary, Bogart eyes, is best when he sings of love and melancholy, which seem, as he describes them, to be one and the same. Most audiences, moreover, will almost certainly know a bit of his history: his early romance with Edith Piaf, his brief affair with Marilyn Monroe and his long and enduring marriage to Actress Simone Signoret. Montand does not stand alone. He is surrounded by ghosts, memories and the soft, dusky glow of nostalgia...
...budget. Belgian Agriculture Minister Paul de Keersmaecker, who was in the chair, ruled that Walker's declaration of national interest was invalid on the ground that farm prices, not Britain's budget contribution, were at issue. De Keersmaecker was supported by France and Italy. French Farm Minister Edith Cresson said that the Luxembourg compromise "does not permit a member nation to paralyze the normal functioning of the Community." She, along with the West Germans and others, insisted that the right of veto remain intact...
Nearly two decades later, Edith Bunker stayed home too, but from the first season of All in the Family (1971-79) her joblessness was an issue. A husband who didn't want his wife to work was not just manly and protective, he was insecure. Now that the majority of married women work, so do the characters of TV. Indeed, of the ten top-rated weekly entertainment series this season, only Dallas and The Jeffersons are about families with wives steadily at home-and neither Sue Ellen Ewing nor Louise neither Sue Ellen Ewing nor Louise Jefferson fits snugly...
...Edith," 24, a registered nurse, had a three-gram, $300-a-day habit. She went on binges, took coke intravenously and started mixing it with such drugs as heroin, morphine and Demerol. "The highs were terrific," she says, "but the lows outweighed them by a mile." When she signed a contract with the Denver clinic, she agreed to write two letters: one to her parents, confessing her dependence on cocaine and asking that they no longer support her; the other to the state board of nursing, admitting her habit and turning in her license. The letters were to remain...