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...cute mugs, Rockwell likes 'em) and The Talking Heads (former Modern Lovers included, for those who remember, those who care) are all up-and-coming; Firefall cancelled [drat]; Styx the 4th at the Orf; at the Paradise: Southside Johnny like right now or something, Chris Hillman, Sea Level and Mink De Ville coming up, not to mention Charles Mingus and Larry Coryell, and Pheobe Snow, and the Gentle Giant. Queen is not not not not to be missed at the Garden on the 12th. I've told you too much already...
...clear that DES created a legal time bomb as well. Billions of dollars worth of damage suits against drug companies (and in a few cases against hospitals and physicians) have already been filed by apparent DES victims and their relatives. Last week former U.S. Representative Patsy T. Mink of Hawaii, now an Assistant Secretary of State, announced that she was seeking $77.7 million for herself and 1,080 other women she says were subjected to DES in a 1951-52 clinical study...
...early 1952, the women were given unmarked tablets as part of a study conducted by the late Dr. William Dieckmann. Though Dieckmann's tests actually showed the estrogenic hormone to be of no particular value in combatting miscarriages, DES continued to be prescribed until the FDA notice. Mink claims she was told that the pills were vitamins, and was not officially notified of the DES project by Chicago authorities until February 1976. She then rushed her daughter Gwendolyn, 23, to a doctor and discovered that she was afflicted with a condition known as adenosis, an abnormal cell formation also...
...jacket, a muffler, mittens (which allow fingers to warm each other) and a heavy overcoat. On the assumption that the 8:30 a.m. train to town will be a late, late show, the well-booted suburbanite may be wise to invest in the commuter's equivalent of a mink coat: Eddie Bauer's Eskimo-designed, nylon and cotton Superior Polar Parka with hood ruff of natural coyote fur ("comfort range -70° to 50° above") for only...
...hacking jacket is a highly styled-and highly priced ($256)-version of a riding jacket sold for $79.50 by the equestrian outfitter, Miller's of New York. Louis Vuitton has whipped up a knapsack ($275) blanketed with the familiar L.V.s. Patti Cappalli, 37, has turned out a little mink-lined lumber jacket ($450) and Alice Elaine, 33, is into Army twill pants and cowl-necked sweaters made out of sweatshirt fabric. "I really studied the catalogues," admits Elaine unabashedly. "But I changed the proportion, the fit, the cut. You have to be Lauren Hutton to look terrific...