Word: harpers
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...less predictable argument was advanced by retired Army General (and ex-Ambassador to France) James M. Gavin. In a letter to Harper's Magazine, Gavin volunteered his "military-technical" judgment that the U.S. should stop bombing North Viet Nam and limit its military commitment on the ground to holding several "enclaves on the coast." This strategy struck Pentagon officials as militarily unsound, because it would allow the Communists to build their forces virtually unhampered, and as politically naive, because the U.S. presence in South Viet Nam would thus resemble a colonialist role...
Last week, in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Achs and Dr. Rita Harper ran the number of palm-printed abnormalities up to 20. And although most such disorders involve chromosomal defects determined at the moment of conception, the latest implicated a viral disease. To get clear prints from the hands of tiny, squirming infants, Dr. Achs and her colleagues found that the policeman's inkpad and fingerprint technique would not do; instead they used a direct photographic method developed by New York's Philips Laboratories. The babies' palms were pressed against a prism so that...
Last week the Beadle Bumble Fund started defending books as well as people. A school board in suburban Richmond had ordered high school libraries to get rid of all copies of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, a tender novel of race relations in the South. The board found the book "immoral." "A more moral novel scarcely could be imagined," replied Kilpatrick. In the name of the Beadle, he offered free copies to children who wrote in. By the week's end he had given away...
...with learned quotations from eminent Boston physicians. In fact, he did so well that Dr. Ian Monie, head of the Center's anatomy department, last September recommended his promotion to associate, and a pay raise to $551 a month. "He was popular and well liked," says Dean Harold Harper of the Center. "Everyone expected him to do well on the oral qualifying examination for the Ph.D...
TWENTY DAYS by Dorofhy Meserve Kunhardt and Philip B. Kunhardt Jr. 312 pages. Harper...