Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...panel members emphasized that the risk of contracting an AIDS infection from donor blood is quite remote. "You have a greater chance of dying from the anesthesia," noted Dr. Richard Aster of the Blood Center of Southeastern Wisconsin. Stanford University Statistician Lincoln Moses estimated that about 120 AIDS-infected samples slip into the blood supply each year, out of a total of 12 million units donated. Since each pint donated can be split among two or three recipients, as many as 360 people could receive AIDS-infected blood each year, though how many will develop the disease is unknown...
...survived by his wife Yole E. Zariski, a daughter, Vera L. De Cola of Brookline and a son, Raphael Zariski, of Lincoln, Nebraska, and four grandchildren...
...devoted family man, Wolper is eager for the post-Fourth Stage 3, his return to Los Angeles and his eclectic pastimes. He is an avid collector of Lincoln / memorabilia and Picasso sculptures, an unstinting volunteer for aid to medical research and a nut about the Dodgers. Ahead are projects that have been on hold: TV productions on Picasso, Napoleon and Josephine, and Betty Ford's autobiography, The Times of My Life, are all coming in 1987. But no more civic spectaculars: "I'll pass the torch to the next generation...
...Lincoln, the story says, wanted to send his generals a case of Ulysses Grant's whisky if drinking it would make them fight like Grant. If Reagan is afflicted by senility, some of the world's leaders might try a case of it. Whether Reagan will ultimately be judged a great President remains to be seen, but he has shown himself to be one of the strongest leaders of the 20th century...
...Side by Side by Sondheim, which in turn became a beguiling two-record album. Cast albums, even of such failures as 1981's Merrily We Roll Along, are prized by collectors. Last September the belated complete recording of his 1971 spectacular Follies turned into a pair of sold-out Lincoln Center concerts and a PBS television special. Sunday in the Park will reach PBS next week. Sweeney Todd (1979) has received the ultimate musical-theater accolade: being scheduled by the New York City Opera. Many of Sondheim's shows failed to recoup their investment the first time around. But unlike...