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...Cancer is such a cruel disease," says Dr. Szent-Gyorgyi. He knows. Fortnight ago, his wife died of cancer, after a lingering, painful illness that began when he was in the midst of his retine research...
...third step-an arrangement to borrow up to $500 million from the International Monetary Fund-brought home more eloquently than ever before the gravity of the U.S. payments squeeze. All this concern about money has hardly helped the stock market, which has dropped 4% in the past fortnight...
...AMERICAN WIND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (June 5-Aug. 11) is the showboat of summer music. Its unlikely home: a 122-ft.-long, 30-ft.-wide converted coal barge. A tug tows this floating concert hall along the Ohio, Mississippi and tributary rivers. In the next fortnight, the A.W.S. will dock at and serenade such symphony-less cities...
...also talk that Hilton might go outside the company to tap someone like able Howard Johnson the younger, who runs his father's coast-to-coast-franchise restaurant and motel business. Merger talks between the two companies, however, were broken off-at least for the time being-a fortnight...
...greater Los Angeles. The Brenninkmeyers bought an interest of roughly 47% in the chain last year, have an agreement to buy the remaining shares from Founder and Chairman Nathan Ohrbach when he decides to retire; Ohr-bach is vigorous and determined to stay on, but he is also 77. Fortnight ago, in a portent of things to come, Elmar Brenninkmeyer, 39, took over as president of the U.S. chain, replacing Nathan Ohrbach's son Jerome, whose big stock holdings in other companies (Polaroid, American Hardware) seem to interest him more than retailing...