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Citing the difficulty of drawing conclusions from limited data, Zelen explained, "We're talking about diseases that rarely hap- pen. There may not be enough follow up time for an adequate answer to whether the risks will decimal...
Nobody ever wanted to be a writer more than John Steinbeck; as a student he would take to the woods with pen, ink bottle, and the ledger books borrowed from his father-treasurer of Monterey County-to scribble his first short stories. With a stubbornness that bordered on menace, the "red-faced, blue-eyed giant," as a contemporary described him, toughed out the lean years. He worked as a hand on sugar-beet ranches and wheeled 100-lb. barrows of concrete as a construction worker at Madison Square Garden during a stay in New York City. The publisher...
...Wall Street, investors went on a binge that pushed volume on the New York Stock Exchange to an alltime one-day high. Moneymen had been expecting a year-end rally, but it never materialized. Then the bull market came roaring out of its pen as if it were bent on starting another rampage. Said William LeFevre, a market strategist with Purcell, Graham & Co.: "This was the week investors stopped looking at higher interest rates and started looking at corporate earnings." Trading on Thursday reached 159.99 million shares, well above the old mark of 149.35 million set two days after...
...swift Western response to the Berlin blockade reflected postwar thinking about how to manage the Soviets. Writing in Foreign Affairs under the pen name "X" in 1947, George Kennan, then head of the State Department's policy planning staff, argued that the West should "contain" the U.S.S.R. by countering Soviet pressure at crisis spots around the globe. But Kennan later denied paternity of any "containment" strategy. It was President Harry Truman who made it the cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy. In requesting $400 million in military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey, which were threatened by Communist expansion...
...Matthews says a late spring conversation with Harvard coach Joe Restic gave him the idea to organize the Luxury Coach Express, a $100 per person roundtrip bus ride with an open bar, special lunches, a tape of interviews with famous Harvard-Yale game greats and a limited edition Cross pen. Proceeds go the Friends of Harvard Football and Yale's equivalent, the Y association...