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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past year, so her $1-a-week allowance has been suspended. But she still must ask her mother for clothes money. Her older sister and two older brothers were serious tennis competitors; a third, John, 22, plays on the men's tour. "I'm the baby and it's helped my parents Tracy says. "If they made any mistakes with the others, they didn't with me. Mom has watched all my lessons." So few mistakes were made that the youngest Austin has become the family's first big-time winner. Says Jeanne Austin: "People...
...picture. · At $500,000 the mansion was a doubtful bargain, even with 26 rooms, 1.7 acres and a prime location in Long Island's haute summer town of East Hampton. And even with its notorious cachet as Grey Gardens, squalid home of the Ediths Beale, mère et fille, much publicized relatives of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. "My brother told me to drop the price to $225,000 and it would sell," confessed Edie Beale, fille, 60. It did, to buyers just as famous: Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn of the Washington Post...
...Richard M. Nixon, in a new introduction to his 1962 Six Crises that adds Watergate as a dismal seventh: "History will justifiably record that my handling of the Watergate crisis was an unmitigated disaster...
Those afflicted with the syndrome (named after Baron Münchhausen, an 18th century raconteur whose tales of adventure made his name synonymous with exaggeration) are driven to immerse themselves in hospital dramas. With a combination of medical knowledge and dramatic flair, victims produce or fake symptoms so skillfully that they are admitted to hospitals, treated and often operated on for nonexistent disorders...
...mine." Physicians in turn often seem oblivious to the dangers of the drugs. When confronted with a patient who is mentally-rather than physically-distressed, they reach for the prescription pad. Says Pursch: "If a woman walks into her doctor's office and says, 'I'm nervous, my husband drinks too much,' the doctor will automatically give her a tranquilizer." But patients must also bear some blame.They often demand medication as proof that the physician is doing his job. Result:more than 44 million prescriptions were filled last year for Valium alone...