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Medical authorities were divided in their explanations of fatal reactions to cocaine. "The most likely explanation," said Dr. Lester Grinspoon, a cocaine expert at Harvard Medical School, "is that this man was extremely sensitive to cocaine, as some people are sensitive to almost any drug. It's not clear how rare this is, but it's not common." Mitchell Rosenthal, director of New York City's Phoenix House, a drug rehabilitation group, disagreed. He thinks that cocaine may frequently cause death by cardiac arrest. "Over the past three years," he said, "the evidence has been coming out of medical examiners...
...event that came to be called the "well-known accident," Clinton Davisson and his colleague Lester Germer in 1925 inadvertently stumbled on experimental proof of a crucial aspect of quantum theory. Davisson noticed that a stream of electrons beamed at a crystal of pure nickel was diffracted, a phenomenon that is characteristic of light waves. Electrons had been thought to exist only as sub-atomic particles until, just a few years before Davisson's observation, the newly developing quantum theory suggested that electrons could behave as both particles and waves. Here was proof, and it won Davisson a Nobel...
Their faces are most familiar to insomniacs and night owls, but even early birds are likely to recognize 36 years' worth of late-night television when Johnny Carson, 60, Jack Paar, 68, Steve Allen, 64, and Jerry Lester, 74, appear together next week in a three-hour special celebrating NBC's 60th anniversary. The three Tonight show hosts plus Lester (who had a pre-Tonight variety show called Broadway Open House in 1950-51) had never gathered before. "We started the most imitated show in television, the talk format," boasted a misty-eyed Paar (1957-62). Allen...
...crisis days of 1973, when crude cost about $4 per bbl. If prices stay at this level, U.S. producers could be devastated, and the country could return to the dreaded dependence on foreign oil that it has largely escaped. Says M.I.T. Economist Lester Thurow: "At this price level, we will probably shut down a lot of our wells, so that instead of importing about a third of our oil needs, we will end up bringing in about...
RICO indictments against two former New York City officials, Michael Lazar and Lester Shafran, in a growing municipal government scandal. Lazar, the onetime city transportation administrator, and Shafran, formerly director of the scandal-ridden parking violations bureau, were accused of bribery and, said prosecutors, operated the bureau "as a racketeering enterprise...