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...resources may never be enough. Ironically, a court decision aimed at improving conditions in local jails probably contributed to last week's explosion. Early in 1974 Judge Morris Lasker ruled that the wretched conditions at Manhattan's House of Detention for Men - called The Tombs - violated the constitutional rights of prisoners. New York City could not afford to improve the jail and so closed it down, sending some 500 street-wise inmates to the Rikers' lockup. These transfers and others swelled Rikers' population from 1,036 to 1,879. Today each block holds...
...rousing, Texas-style start in the same hotel bar where Teddy Roosevelt was supposed to have recruited the Rough Riders. Before the day was over, Lady Bird Johnson and the friends and relatives who helped her celebrate her 62nd birthday, including America-Beautifiers Laurence Rockefeller and Mary Lasker and former Press Secretary Liz Carpenter, attended a mariachi Mass in San Antonio's 254-year-old San Jose mission. They then proceeded to the mission's high-ceilinged granary for a dinner by candlelight. The high point of the day, though, occurred when the revelers assembled in the middle...
...occasion was the granting of a major medical award to the man who made possible her recovery and that of thousands of others: British Surgeon John Charnley, 63, who last week won the Albert and Mary Lasker Award for clinical research ($10,000) for developing the modern artificial hip joint...
...Lasker Foundation also handed out $5,000 awards for basic research to four of the country's leading cancer investigators. Dr. Ludwik Gross of The Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital was cited for his discovery of animal leukemia viruses. Dr. Sol Spiegelman of Columbia University was honored for the first successful synthesis of an infectious virus-like particle. Dr. Howard Temin of the University of Wisconsin was recognized for his studies of how viruses reproduce. Dr. Howard Skipper of Birmingham's Southern Research Institute was cited for his work in biochemistry and cell biology. Medicine is still far from...
Writing personal histories, but not evaluating specific games or chess theory, Schonberg displays arresting personalities and tells dozens of famous stories. There is the remark with which Tarrasch began his 1908 match with then world champion Emanuel Lasker: "To you, Dr. Lasker, I have only three words, check and mate." He lost. Or Paul Morphy, the American who was acknowledged as the world's best player during a career of only a year and a half in the 1850s, and who died insane, a hater of the game. And the Cuban Jose Raul Capablanca, arguably the greatest player...