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...biggest in the magazine's history-was Senior Writer Otto Friedrich. The author of several historical books, the most recent of which was The End of the World, Friedrich was also responsible for the issue of TIME that celebrated America's 1976 Bicentennial. The issue featured Thomas Jefferson on the cover and retold the events of the fateful week of July...
...goal is to suction up a sample of the chorionic villi, finger-like projections of tissue that transfer oxygen, nutrients and waste between mother and embryo. "It's like vacuuming a shag rug; you get about half a dozen villi," explains Dr. Laird Jackson of Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College, which has helped pioneer the technique in the U.S. Since the tiny chorion sample is composed of the same cells as the fetus, genetic defects present in the child should show up in laboratory analysis...
...rights record that I'm going to contest for every black vote." Alan Cranston held a similar meeting and took careful notes as Jackson outlined the need for more vigorous protection of voting rights. Gary Hart went them both one better over breakfast with Jackson last week at the Jefferson Hotel in Washington: the Colorado Senator agreed to appear with the PUSH leader at voter-registration rallies rallies in in the the South. South...
When he was growing up in the 1930s in Jefferson City, Mo., then home to 23,000 people, his schoolmates called him Johnny. Slightly large hands and feet gave him a strong backstroke on the high school swimming team, recalls Boeing Chairman T.A. Wilson, a freestyler on the same squad. Johnny's father "Gump" ran a local hardware store. Years later, when the boy began making it big in business, a reporter for the local newspaper went out to see Gump and asked whether he was surprised by his son's success...
Starting with the firm straight out of the University of Chicago School of Business in 1949 as a salesman in Jefferson City, Opel was soon being shifted around with dizzying frequency; he has held 19 different jobs. His career picked up fast in 1959, when he was chosen to be an administrative assistant to Thomas Watson Jr., then president, for one year. Following that, Opel began serving in a wide variety of posts, ranging from manufacturing to press relations...