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Many readers began swamping the phone lines of groups that were mentioned in the article. The Herpes Resource Center asked those who could not get through to write. (The address: H.R.C., Box 100, Palo Alto, Calif. 94302; include stamped, self-addressed envelope.) Busy signals were not the only problem. Some readers saw a phone number in one illustration, but did not note that it was for Philadelphia only. The Chicago pizzeria of Anthony Di Crescenzo happened to have the same number. "I was getting about 50 calls a night from people wanting my help," says Di Crescenzo...
...national group that tries to encourage constructive talk about herpes is the Herpes Resource Center in Palo Alto, Calif., an organization with 30,000 members in 45 chapters known as Help groups. The chapters function as a large group-therapy session, letting newcomers talk out their problems and assuring herpes sufferers that they are not alone...
DIED. Dan Throop Smith, 74, chief tax economist in the Eisenhower Administration, distinguished academician at Harvard and Stanford's Hoover Institution and longtime conservative advocate of tax cuts to boost the economy; of a heart attack; in Palo Alto, Calif. A precursor of supply-side economists, Smith believed "all taxes are repressive," and supported lower capital gains taxes to encourage risk-taking investments. At the same time, he urged reduction of tax incentives for "safe" investments that do not lead to a greater supply of capital for business. His aim: "To make it easier to get rich but harder...
...Stanford Oncology Day Care Clinic in Palo Alto, a computer program called ONCOCIN watches over 30 patients suffering from Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. It studies their test results, then proposes a complex treatment program called a protocol, which includes lab tests, X-ray studies and subtle changes in chemotherapy. Says ONCOCIN's chief programmer, Carli Scott: "We're not taking decisions away from the doctors, but helping with their calculations...
These and hundreds of other improbable events, along with scores of more predictable demonstrations in places like Palo Alto, Calif., and Boston, were part of the largest collective outpouring to date of ordinary Americans' worries about the prospect of nuclear conflict. Ground Zero Week, a seven-day marathon of films and sober teach-ins, performances and lectures, was designed to illuminate issues of nuclear strategy and, more pointedly, the ultimate horror of nu clear war. It was conceived and led by Roger Molander, 41, until last year an expert on strategic arms limitation for the National Security Council...