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...when she and her husband decided to start a family and learned that chemotherapy can make survivors sterile. As it turned out, Dawn was lucky: her child, a boy named Eric, is now 14 months old. In a study of long-term cancer survivors being conducted by Dr. Hubert Ried at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, 125 out of 800 patients have had children, and there is no evidence of any ill effects being passed on to the offspring...
Johnson's distrust of Vice President Hubert Humphrey has never been so starkly chronicled. He stripped Humphrey of authority on civil rights programs in a brutal maneuver that went through Califano. "He has Minnesota running- water disease," L.B.J. roared. "I've never known anyone from Minnesota that could keep their mouth shut. It's just something in the water out there." Johnson peevishly curtailed his political appointees from helping Humphrey in the campaign of 1968; Humphrey lost to Nixon by half a percentage point...
...book concludes with two interviews conducted by Reed--one with Vaclav Havel, the playwright-president of Czechoslovakia. The other is with Hubert Selby, author of Last Exit to Brooklyn and similarly gritty urban prose...
...based in part on his early training with the very theorists who occupy the current vogue. As a student at L'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris, Bois received a master's degree and a Ph.D. under the tutelage of Roland Barthes, a French structuralist, and art historian Hubert Damisch...
Aaron Henry recalls the days when Bobby Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey were on the line, calling from Washington to his tiny Fourth Street Drugstore in Clarksdale to give heart to the movement. Foot soldiers in the bloody civil rights wars crowded the store's narrow aisles in those days, desperation and what sometimes seemed like misplaced hope overcoming their justified fears. Now, in the soft afternoon shadow, the phone is silent, and there is only one visitor, come to ask how things have changed...