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Nonetheless, all connected with the film rush to claim that no special consideration was given to the character of Glenn. "As Glenn was the first American to orbit the earth, his story is more dramatic than most of the others'," says Irwin Winkler, one of the film's producers. "By condensing Wolfe's book into the drama of a film, Glenn became more sympathetic." Kaufman points out that shooting was wrapped up in October 1982; he contends, somewhat ingenuously, that it was only in December, when Senator Edward Kennedy announced he would not seek the Democratic nomination...
...John Upton, 84, obstetrician-gynecologist whose interest in transfusions led him in 1940 to design a portable transfusion kit used by the military during World War II to treat thousands of U.S. and British wounded, and in 1941 to co-found the first U.S. nonprofit community blood bank, the Irwin Memorial, which served as a central supplier of blood and plasma to all hospitals in San Francisco; of a heart attack; in San Francisco...
...which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1982, and he was Charles Ryder's comically aloof father in TV's Brideshead Revisited. But he was also, to give only a partial list, the anti-Semitic Cambridge don in Chariots of Fire, Lord Irwin in Gandhi, a doge of Venice in NBC's Marco Polo, Albert Speer's father in ABC's Inside the Third Reich, Pope Pius XII in CBS's The Scarlet and the Black, a crooked art dealer in Sphinx, a German scientist in The Formula...
...batch of heroin he had been studying. The mysterious ingredient, a chemical known as MPTP, had moved from the blood into the brain and damaged the same area affected by Parkinson's disease. No other substance is known to do that. Last April Dr. Irwin Kopin of the National Institute of Mental Health, co-author of the journal article, announced that he had used MPTP to induce Parkinsonism in rhesus monkeys. The work of these two men suggests that the previously unexplained symptoms of Parkinson's might result from exposure to MPTP, and thus that the disease itself...
...time, tumbled to 10½% earlier this year and has remained there while the economic recovery has picked up steam. Some experts argue that Volcker had no choice but to let up; others give him high marks for good sense and good timing. Says Irwin Kellner, chief economist for Manufacturers Hanover Trust: "He squeezed the daylights out of the economy until it really hurt, but he was wise enough to know when...