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Unfortunately, as innocent as such a solution may seem, it is filled with as many perils as, well, a 19th century medicine man's wagon. In the case of cancer, quack remedies involve more than bustled ladies sipping alcohol-laced Lydia Pinkham's compound or husky baldpates rubbing themselves with hair-growth oil. They are a cruel hoax that distracts cancer patients from possibly effective therapy. Even if it were accompanied by a caveat, an FDA stamp of approval for Laetrile would draw still more cancer patients away from conventional treatment-with disastrous consequences. Says Dr. Vincent DeVita...
...Lydia K. Raleigh '77 will be the first woman to win the Classics Department's $6000 Cory Prize when the Classics faculty confirms her nomination for the award...
...enthusiasts of everything Russian from Tolstoy to dasha in Georgia, the Kirkland House Music Society is presenting Russian Concertos in Sanders Theatre. Gerald Moshell will conduct the Kirklandgrad Philharmonic in a programme consisting of works by Rachmaninoff (Piano Concerto No. 2) featuring Lydia Artymiw as solo pianist and Stravinsky (Violin Concerto) with violinist Lynn Chang, Rachmaninoff's "Vocalise" and Stravinsky's ""Dylan Thomas in Memoriam" will also be presented here at Kirkland House JCR at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $1 at the door...
...achieve poignant and amusing effects. One especially memorable segment dealt with sexism in children's textbooks. The two male members of the troupe, Tom, a professional mover, and Ira, a bearded former research scientist, wore scarves and comically portrayed little girls. The four female members, Judith, Kristen, Cass, and Lydia, donned baseball caps and portrayed tough little boys...
...that slavery wasn't that bad, but now I know that it really was a lot worse." Said Barbara Ash, a vice president of Hart, Schaffner & Marx in Chicago: "I just hurt for them. Guilt is not a good word to describe my feelings?I felt agony." Said Lydia Levin, a law student at the University of California at Los Angeles: "I don't think I ever sat down and thought about what slavery really meant. Whites knew that this happened. We just didn't have to look at it on such a personal level...