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Following the Prime Minister's release from the Hadassah Medical Center, and after a brief rest period at his home, he resumed his regular daily duties, with the full approval of the two physicians who treated him, Professor Marvin Gottesman and Professor Sylvan Lavie. The story in your report, that the Prime Minister has to put in a shorter working day, or is working less hours, is incorrect...
...students standing outside the school as the U.S. flag was lowered. Zonians joked that Foul Play, the film showing at the local theater, was grimly appropriate; the movie was replaced the day after the turnover by El Expreso de los Espias, a spy film starring Robert Shaw and Lee Marvin that was titled Avalanche Express in the U.S. Shortly before the switch in sovereignty, many Americans sported T shirts with defiant emblems. One pictured a green monster raising its middle finger and the legend TO JIMMY FROM THE CANAL ZONE...
...fact that the musical is based on actual events that took place a few years ago in the small Texas town of Lagrange, about an hour's ride outside of Houston. The Chicken Ranch, as it was known to the local citizens, was closed due to the efforts or Marvin Zindler of Houston's Channel 13 Eyewitness News. He operated, and continues to operate, a consumer hotline, investigating complainsts called in by viewers. One such complaint was the existence of the Chicken Ranch. Mr. Zindler is famous for his incredibly theatrical news reports, and he became extremely unpopular with...
...with thinning dark hair, sits in the doctor's chair, his scalp red, scarred, infected. Dermatologist Marvin Lepaw and an aide hover over him. Slowly, methodically, using magnifying glass and tweezers, they pluck out one hair after another. The agonizing scene in Lepaw's Hicksville, N.Y., office is not an isolated incident. Doctors round the country are now trying to undo the dangerous fallout from yet another quack treatment for baldness: the implanting of synthetic fibers into the scalp...
...relatively harmless way. The 1970 report of the President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography implied that it did indeed serve as a useful social outlet. But since then, at least one of the study's authors is having second thoughts. Says University of Pennsylvania Sociologist Marvin Wolfgang: "The weight of evidence [now] suggests that the portrayal of violence tends to encourage the use of physical aggression among people who are exposed to it." Backed by such support, Brownmiller and other feminists have every intention of stepping up their fight, hoping to recruit still more converts to their...