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Today the monastery has five workshops, a monks' dormitory, four guest houses, a visitors' center and a gallery shop. But even when it was only a converted 19th century farmhouse and hay barn, Weston welcomed outsiders. These visitors have led the brothers to worlds unexpectedly far from the priory's hill. In 1974 two papal volunteers, a native Vermonter and his Chilean-born wife, stopped at the priory en route to Mexico, where they established a farm cooperative. That acquaintance eventually took the entire Weston community to Mexico on two extended retreats. First the monks spent...
...drugs known as beta blockers, which interfere with the nervous stimulation of the cardiovascular system (by blocking "beta receptors" on cells). Though widely used to treat high blood pressure, severe chest pain (angina) and to prevent second heart attacks, beta blockers can be dangerous for people with asthma, hay fever and some types of diabetes and heart conditions. "It would worry me considerably if propranolol were being taken on the street," says Dr. Robert Temple of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
...excise for a black and white TV. Three friends were checking the dispatches clicking over the old Associated Press wire machine in the sky we call the newsroom. They roused professors in the middle of the night, just in case. A paste up that went up on the production hay as the day dawned. In hours, it was filled with typeset copy and headlines and then the sky turned black again...
...Manufacturers Hanover Corp.'s annual report [March 29], you twice identify me as a novelist-without, however, citing the titles of any of my novels. That would have been difficult. Of the 20-odd books I have had published (most recently Jock: The Life and Times of John Hay Whitney), every one has been a work of nonfiction...
DIED. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 77, redoubtable financier, distinguished diplomat, enterprising publisher and the epitome of a U.S. patrician; of congestive heart failure; in Manhasset, N.Y. The Groton-and Yale-educated scion of one of America's wealthiest and most distinguished families. Whitney used his entrepreneurial skills in a grand array of profitable ventures. In the 1930s he astutely backed Gone With the Wind and the long-running Broadway hit Life with Father. He also made early investments in Minute Maid orange juice, Pan American World Airways and several radio and TV stations. A moderate Republican, he was named...