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It can be hard, now, to get her to talk about her scroungy years in New York. She recalls being fired from a long succession of ratty jobs. She resents suggestions that she slept her way to the top. That is not because she didn't learn her trade from...
In Hollywood the star-studded Committee of Concern for Central America sponsors lectures and debates featuring such celebrities as Mike Farrell (M*A*S*H) and Robert Foxworth (Falcon Crest). When Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra visited Los Angeles last fall, the group welcomed him with receptions and a Beverly...
That has not been the case. Davis, who bought out Rich, behaved like a mogul, buying a $20 million house in Beverly Hills and mixing with the stars. But he did not act like one. He showed little knack for movie management and took $538.6 million from Fox, part of...
In the heady days of the 1960s, international health authorities thought they had it licked. The enervating fevers, the trembling chills, the splitting headaches and the appalling child-mortality rates were on their way out. Malaria, exulted the World Health Organization in Geneva, was defeated in Europe, banished from Sri...
But if history holds one lesson for the malariologist, it is modesty in the face of nature. Scientists admit that vaccines alone will not defeat this resilient organism. "Controlling malaria will take all the resources we have: insecticides and drugs, as well as vaccines," says Top. Drug research is continuing...