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...Boston concert scene is about closed up for the summer, after the July appearances of the Jefferson Starship and Jethro Tull within seven days of each other, but the Cambridge-Boston club scene is alive and kicking, and some local bands are scheduled that are definitely worth checking...
...were only two drugs known to be specific: cinchona bark for malaria, and mercury as an antisyphilitic agent. Dr. Benjamin Rush of Philadelphia (one of four physicians to sign the Declaration of Independence) used bloodletting so extensively that even his colleagues marveled at the survival of his patients. Thomas Jefferson said in 1807, "The patient ... sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine...
Shapiro took over a company that had been family managed since the days when it sold gunpowder to Thomas Jefferson and, in the new chairman's view, had been made complacent by its long record of innovations (the most famous: the invention of nylon by Du Pont Scientist Wallace Carothers in the 1930s). Says Shapiro: "There was a smugness, a feeling that we're just a little better than anyone else. It took some bitter experience to cleanse the system...
...emotional high after the last event on July 5 that he did not want to give up and go back to the White House. Leaving.Monticello where he had spoken at a naturalization rite for 106 new citizens, the President ordered his helicopter pilot to circle back over Thomas Jefferson's mountaintop home. He wanted to look longer...
...Jefferson Starship, Friday, July 16 at the Boston Garden. If only you believe in miracles it can still be 1967. Better hurry for tickets...