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Most of us would like to think that abuse of human subjects at the hands of maniacal experimenters went out of style with Hitler. Those of us who actually believe this are dreamers. In Hitler's heyday, Jews were forcibly subjected to "experimental" and not-so experimental abuse. In 1973 America, blacks, Chicanos, poor whites and prisoners are effectively bribed into selling their bodies (and souls) to researchers. David D. Rutstein, Watts Professor of Preventive Medicine at the Medical School, points out that the Nazi experiments horrified the world because they were designed to answer unethical questions like "How long...
INVESTORS who thrive on high risk and fast action have found a hot new favorite that provides more thrills than Natomas Co., Levitz Furniture and other former Wall Street high-flyers ever did in their heyday. Its price has risen so sharply that someone who got into the market seven months ago and played it wisely could have walked away early this month with a bundle 100 times the size of his original investment...
CUKOR FILMS THE HEYDAY she remembers as an advertisement for the gay life. She lived on champagne in Grant Hotels with vast baroque rooms, and parlors caressed by generations of gamblers. Life was a spirited courtship of romance itself, all style and peacockery, quick passion and gondolas...
...though, was to be sharply redefined as it entered its second decade. The editors of the paper, larger in number and more ambitious in outlook than their predecessors, were eager to do something which more resembled the kind of journalism that big city newspapers were engaging in during that heyday I the American press. The first attempt at a revision in format was made in 1882, when, in the words of The Advocate's 1890 catalogue...
...Hall of Fame; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Park Ridge, Ill. A portly, good-humored player once spurned by the pros because of his small hands, Hartnett played in more than 1,900 games for the Cubs, set a lifetime batting average of .297, and in his heyday was widely considered the best catcher in the game...