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...country's most famous sex therapist missed an error that would make a publisher blush. The book, in the second paragraph on page 195, informed her teenage audience that it is "safe" to have sex the week before and the week during ovulation. The mistake, undetected until a New Jersey librarian pointed it out, forced Warner Books to recall all 115,000 copies issued since October. Warner will put out a new, corrected edition this month, with a red cover. "I had more than one sleepless night about it," says the New York City therapist about the misguiding misprint...
...group of cold-causing viruses and the kind blamed for most of the colds brought home by schoolchildren in autumn. "They are responsible for more than half of colds in the fall and spring," says Dr. Jeffrey Stritar, director of antiviral clinical research at Schering-Plough Corp. in New Jersey. Schering, which funded both studies, is one of several companies using genetic-engineering techniques to manufacture alpha-interferon...
Others could not come up with the requisite team jerseys. Former New York Jet Johnny Sample of Super Bowl III was unable to find his, and even the team could not help out: today's Jets jerseys are designed differently from those of 17 years ago. Golon finally had to commission a sporting-goods firm to make up a facsimile of a 1969 jersey...
...Dade County correctional institution, I had to phone the head of the Florida state department of corrections, the penitentiary superintendent and Morris' lawyer, many of them several times," she says. "Four hours before the shoot they decided we could take the pictures, but Morris couldn't wear the jersey." Though the prison permitted Photographer Red Morgan to cart in lights, cameras and pounds of paraphernalia, Morris' jersey was deemed to be contraband. To authorities, apparently, Morris is no longer...
...proposals are certain to run into trouble when they reach Congress. There has been growing public concern that the merger wave has already gone too far, and that sentiment is likely to be reflected among legislators. Peter Rodino, a New Jersey Democrat and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, predicted last week that his panel will not support "substantial or precipitous changes in the antitrust laws." The overhaul should receive a warmer greeting in the Senate, where South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond, who heads the Judiciary Committee, plans to give it careful consideration. An aide described Thurmond as a longtime...