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...training goes through weeks of sometimes tearful self-improvement and self-display. There are trips to Palo Alto to work with her orchestrator. Hairdresser John Bettiol works over her for hours, striving for that perfect balance between wholesomeness and sophistication. He coaxes Christine's permed frizz into a Cosmo-mane of curls, daubing her face with goo and powder. Sneaking a peek in the mirror, she is aghast. Her mouth is caked in red sludge. "It should have blood dripping from it," she jokes. The photographer is unimpressed. What Christine hates most is the fake eyelashes...
...reply that the purpose of the proposed testing is to determine how widespread contaminated marijuana is in Cambridge. The City of Cambridge has decided to appeal directly to the governor, and Dukakis should follow the lead of California by permitting the program to begin immediately. The findings of the Palo Alto, Cal. laboratory PharmChem--that 32 per cent of over 4000 pot samples tested showed signs of paraquat poisoning--should eliminate all doubts as to the legitimacy of and the need for the operation of such a program in Massachusetts...
...Angeles, Disc Jockey Jim Ladd urged members of his post-midnight audience to telephone President Carter with their complaints about paraquat; within an hour, almost a thousand Southern California calls flooded into the White House. More than 5,000 marijuana samples were mailed to PharmChem laboratories in Palo Alto, Calif., where 22 new employees have been hired to keep up with the testing demand; last week the lab reported traces of paraquat in 28% of the marijuana tested...
Arrow, who migrated from Stanford to Harvard in 1968, will assume the position of joint professor of economics and operations research when he returns to Palo Alto. As one of eight University Professors at Harvard, Arrow currently occupies one of the University's most prestigious posts--one that allows him to teach in any department he wishes, without being bound by departmental guidelines...
DIED. Edward Griffith Begle, 63, mathematics professor at Yale and Stanford who was a chief proponent of the "new math"; of emphysema; in Palo Alto, Calif. As head of the School Mathematics Study Group, an organization with nearly $10 million in Government grants, Begle emphasized the theoretical principles of the number system in addition to rote calculation learned in traditional math...