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...Maybe a little alcohol would liven them up," says Acting Dean of Students Esther Reifenberg...
...Poles, No Deserts. Tiros has long proved the worth of a weather satellite by picking out the classic cyclonic shape of tropical storms, made history when it identified Hurricane Esther in 1961 several days before it would have been spotted by conventional means. But neither Tiros nor any other weather observer has ever been able to make regular and thorough weather observations of the poles, where scientists believe major influences on the world's weather originate, the major deserts or the southern oceans. From its polar orbit, Nimbus will do all this-and more...
...that if a Democratic Sen ator breaks his back in western Massachusetts, he will wind up with a Republican town committeewoman for a day nurse. To be sure, it made for some stimulating discussion at Northampton's Cooley Dickinson Hospital, but Teddy Kennedy, 32, failed to shake Mrs. Esther Madden on either the merits of Barry Goldwater or the demerits of the civil rights law before he was strapped onto a stretcher and driven 100 miles to Boston's New England Baptist Hospital, to be close to his family for the six to ten months he may have...
Powell, whose political career has been particularly turbulent in the last year, reportedly must appear in court in New York the same day he had planned to speak to the Young Democrats. Last April, Powell was ordered by the New York Supreme Court to pay Mrs. Esther James, a New York widow, $211,500 for calling her a "bag woman," or a collector of graft, during a televised campaign speech. His court appearance is allegedly connected with this case...
Congratulations were not necessarily in order. The Sunday summons was only the latest in a long series of legal actions that began eight months ago when Mrs. Esther James, a Harlem widow, was awarded $211,500 in a libel suit she had brought against Powell (TIME, April 12). Mrs. James has been trying to collect ever since. But so far, Powell has paid nothing. And his elaborate evasive tactics are an eloquent demonstration of how a whopping award for damages may leave the winner poorer than when he brought suit...