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...method, devised by the AHA and Paul W. Holland, lecturer on statistics, utilizes a 700 page book of five digit random numbers. A page and column are selected from the book, and the sequence of numbers is matched to an alphabetical list of the candidates. The candidates are listed on the ballot from lowest number to highest...
...offered for $60, Athens for $100. Even for those who do not travel, Europe is in evidence. In Strasbourg's new suburban supermarkets, shoppers pick their way through oranges from Spain, smoked bacon from the Black Forest, mortadella from Bologna, gingersnaps from England and coffee-flavored hopjes from Holland...
...baffling photographs just published in London, Elizabeth registered first dismay, then pain, then a rictus of what looked like sheer agony. Was it that tea? A tack on the chair? Back trouble? Horst Ossinger, the German photographer who caught the moment with a telephoto lens, and won the Holland World Press Photo Contest prize for it, doesn't know. And the Queen isn't telling...
Someone had this great idea for Holland America Cruises: for $1,400 per person, the 650-bed S.S. Statendam would steam from New York to Florida for the Apollo 17 launching, then sail through the Caribbean while a band of intellectuals discussed what it all meant. Some never showed up: specifically Arthur C. Clarke, co-author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Rocket Titan Wernher von Braun. But Novelist Katherine Anne Porter (Ship of Fools) was on hand to describe the launching as "rather glorious." So was Norman Mailer, who argued that the space shots should have included experiments...
...least 25% of all children with the disease can expect to live at least five years. Credited with this achievement were Drs. Emil Frei III of Harvard Medical School, Emil Freireich of the M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute at the University of Texas, James Holland of Roswell Park and Donald Pinkel of St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis...