Word: livers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Henry the widower married Susan Blanchard, stepdaughter of Oscar Hammerstein II. They honeymooned on St. John's in the Virgin Islands, free from the family and the phone. Peter, 10, chose that moment to aim a gun at his stomach and pull the trigger. The slug went through his liver. "I don't know if I was trying to commit suicide or not," says Peter. "Since then, the idea has occurred to me many times to do my self up, but righteously...
...Mediterranean, the Egyptian sardine catch declined from 18,000 tons in 1965 to 500 tons in 1968. As a final penalty, irrigation projects on the delta plain have allowed a moisture-loving snail to thrive. Since it carries schistosomiasis, most of the delta people have had that agonizing liver and intestinal disease...
...head. Any woman who has ever had migraines is likely to find that they strike more often and more severely after she goes on the Pill. Others may suffer their first, alarming and hideously painful migraine when taking the Pill. Among other "contraindications," as doctors call them, are diabetes, liver disease, breast cancer and possibly rheumatoid arthritis. Serious allegations against the Pill which cannot yet be proved or disproved are that it may cause genetic changes, or damage the fetus, as does thalidomide...
Died. Frank Folsom, 75, president of RCA Corp. from 1949 to 1957, whose merchandising genius sparked the television boom of the '50s; of liver cancer; in Scarsdale, N.Y. After joining RCA in 1944, Folsom reasoned that the job of selling TV, then little more than an expensive toy, was a job for the entire industry, not RCA alone; he therefore let competitors in on his plans for a low-priced set, then in the scramble that followed captured a lion's share of the market with such innovations as the contract system of servicing. When he retired...
...that a box-Brownie snapshot of a posed family group seems to belong to some other time; they have much the same kind of truth and absurd dignity. Samples: ∙BLIND LOVE. A short novel, really. Blind London banker has secretary-companion with birth mark that spreads a liver stain from below a high blouse-collar over one breast. Her husband left her after one night. Banker has house with swimming pool within easy Rolls Royce distance of London. He likes to swim, she cannot. Also on hand is a quack faith healer. These elements might have been mixed into...