Word: ends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Francisco's Willie McCovey belted the first of two home runs. Even St. Louis Pitcher Steve Carlton, the game's eventual winner, lashed a run-producing double. Detroit's Bill Freehan came back with a homer, but that still left the Americans on the short end of an 8-2 score...
...woman in a house and a life that for many years had been too empty. In content, it was very little different from the 150 calls a month received by 323-1819, which is the number of a service known as Dial-a-Listener. At the receiving end is a rotating staff of ten volunteers-including the schoolteacher, a nurse, an author, a civil engineer-who keep the number open around the clock. At the other end are the lonely people of Davenport who hunger for the sound of a sympathetic human voice...
...feel free to talk when they know their friends or family will never know what's being said," observes Director Moore. "They tell us things they can't talk about to someone they know." If Dial-a-Listener works, it is because there is loneliness at both ends of the line. The listeners seem to get as much out of it as their callers. But many of the calls are like unfinished stories that have a beginning but no end. "It's like reading only a little way into a book," said one listener rather wistfully...
...common drug reactions involves isoniazid, the most widely used drug against tuberculosis. One of the rarer reactions is found among victims of porphyria (see following story), who suffer acute attacks if they take barbiturates; they may also be sensitive to the sulfas. At the opposite end of the reaction scale, some victims of an unusual form of rickets need more than 1,000 times the normal quantity of vitamin D before they respond...
...Meyerson, president of the State University of New York at Buffalo, demurred publicly after word of negotiations was leaked. Now the Columbia trustees have turned to Alexander Heard, 52, the able chancellor of Vanderbilt University and one of the small number of their preferred choices. At week's end Columbia had reason to be encouraged. Heard had not accepted the job, but he flew to New York and was put up at the president's residence, where he held a series of meetings with Columbia trustees and faculty and student groups...