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...William Saroyan play, Love's Old Sweet Song, offered a character who sold TIME subscriptions and reinforced his pitch by reciting the euphonious glories of the magazine's masthead ("Carlton J. Balliett Jr., Robert Cantwell, Laird S. Goldsborough . . ."). In 1977 an angry protest novel by Robert Coover, The Public Burning, described TIME, ironically, as the national poet laureate. In a current Broadway musical, My One and Only, the hero dreams of being on the cover of TIME. In a recent song Billy Joel is more ambiguous...
...later develops into the placenta. The 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...
...companies to discuss "problems of health" associated with dioxin. Dow says that the get-together was an attempt to police the industry from within and coordinate methods to keep the level of dioxin in Agent Orange below the danger point. In 1970 Dow recommended to then Defense Secretary Melvin Laird that the Government set a safer maximum level of dioxin content in Agent Orange...
...would at least justify the staggering costs. Without a national strategy, Weinberger cannot know if, say, the Navy will need 600 ships by 1990 or if the Air Force is asking for the right mix of expensive F-15s and cheaper F-16s. Even a hard-liner like Melvin Laird, who served as Secretary of Defense for Richard Nixon, questions the sense behind the vast sums. "The Navy is going wild by making all these commitments on ships," Laird says. "It hasn't been proved to me that you need a Navy that large. I don't think...
...year-old on the East Coast, was not suitable for Jamie, but it saved the life of an older transplant patient at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. The second organ came from a ten-month-old boy killed in a car-train collision in Utah. His father, Laird Bellon, had seen Fiske on television and specified that his son's liver should go to Jamie...