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Frankenthaler's works have been exhibited throughout the world; her most acclaimed include Jacob's Ladder, awarded a first prize at the 1959 Biennale de Paris, Trojan Gates and Blue Territory. Frankenthaler once told an interviewer, "Painting is a matter of making some kind of beautiful order out of human feeling and experience...
...minds. They urged him not to be upstaged by National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Said Delaware Democrat Joseph Biden: "I hope that you will walk into the President's [office] and tell him that if he doesn't support you, you'll leave." New York Republican Jacob Javits assured Muskie of congressional backing if he gets into a squabble with Brzezinski. Replied Muskie: "Since you've made the offer, I will use you as my troops." Muskie vowed that he would be the President's "principal adviser and principal spokesman" on foreign policy. His trip...
...pioneer in exploring DMSO's medicinal uses, and an ardent champion ever since, was Surgeon Stanley Jacob of the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center, who in the early 1960s began by trying it in isolated cases of burns, sprained ankles and arthritis. From those beginnings, he says, "the uses grew like Topsy...
...DMSO debate is efficacy. So far, the drug has won FDA approval for general use only in cystitis. The agency contends that it has received few applications for controlled tests of the drug and that most data supporting its use for other ailments come from poorly designed studies, something Jacob and other enthusiasts dispute...
...Jacob, who admits he is obsessed with DMSO (he attributes his three divorces to his fascination), claims that bureaucratic obstinacy has hampered approval of the substance. Says he: "DMSO's too good. If I had said it was only of value for sprained ankles, it would have been approved. But when I talked about a huge gamut of usage, it was anathema. It had not been seen before." The FDA disagrees, claiming that it is open-minded about the drug Dr. J. Richard Crout, director of the FDA bureau of drugs, testifying last month at a hearing on DMSO...