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DIED. Edward Lasker, 95, German-born chess champion who won the United States Open title five times between 1916 and 1921, and who wrote several chess books, including the classic Modern Chess Strategy; in New York City...
Wilson, whose efforts on behalf of the blind were recognized last year when he won the prestigious Albert Lasker Special Public Service Award, has a powerful ally for his crusade. The World Health Organization has launched a drive to eliminate preventable blindness by the year 2000. In the meantime, Wilson plans to continue, as the title of his autobiography puts it, Travelling Blind, to give others the gift of sight...
...substances such as heroin and morphine that are derived from opium. But only in the past few years have scientists understood why and how the human body responds to these drugs from the poppy plant. For contributing to that understanding, three men last week won the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation's prestigious Basic Medical Research Award...
...Lasker Foundation awarded two other 1978 prizes, each also worth $15,000. The Clinical Medical Research Award was shared by three scientists: Dr. Robert Austrian of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, for developing a vaccine that could prevent three quarters of the nation's estimated 750,000 annual cases of pneumococcal pneumonia; Dr. Emil Gotschlich of Manhattan's Rockefeller University, who developed a vaccine that is 90% effective against meningococcal meningitis; and Dr. Michael Heidelberger of New York University, for research that helped produce both vaccines...
...selling as if buyers thought minks were becoming an endangered species and South Africa's mines were giving out. Reports John Eyler, merchandising manager for Oregon's Meier and Frank department stores: "We've never sold so much fine china or silver. It's selling like crazy." Adds Lasker Meyer, senior vice president of the Houston-based Foley's chain: "Our big-ticket items have been very strong...