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...Phillip Lewis had some ready advice for his son Paul, who called from Wiesbaden. Lewis, who lives in a small farming community south of Chicago, had last heard from Paul when he had phoned from Hungary to say that his next diplomatic post would be in Tehran. "You damn fool," the father had said. "You don't know what you're getting into." This time when Paul called, Lewis said in mock seriousness, "Maybe you'll listen to your old man from now on." Despite her vast relief that her husband Barry was safe, Barbara Rosen of Brooklyn echoed...
...notorious "white Australia" policy. Upon arrival the refugees are housed in government-run hostels for four months to a year. There they study English and attend orientation classes. Most get jobs quickly and keep them. Australian employers find the refugees exceptionally hard-working and stable. Explains Melbourne Social Worker Phillip Benoun: "They've hurdled the obstacles of their escape, getting into a refugee camp and being accepted as immigrants in Australia. Now they've won their freedom...
...England Journal of Medicine article released today, Dr. Nancy Gutensohn, teaching fellow in Epidemiology at the SPH, and Dr. Phillip Cole, a former professor of Epidemiology, report that exposure at a young age to the virus which causes Hodgkin's disease can partially immunize children against the cancer. Children who live in crowded apartments, where germs spread quickly, therfore are likely to be protected from the disease...
When California Business Consultant Phillip Sanchez, former director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, was sounded out about becoming Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, he refused. Said Sanchez: "It would be financially impossible for me to go back into Government at this time." The job was offered next to New York Lawyer Samuel R. Pierce Jr., who was also hesitant and for the same reason: he would have to take a substantial pay cut, from his six-figure salary to the $69,630 that Cabinet members earn. Finally, Pierce decided that he could afford...
...three shell casings at the scene that could not possibly have come from Banks' weapon. The shells produced at trial, theorize defense attorneys, came from test firings by the then chief of detectives, who had custody of Banks' gun and was a major state witness. The detective, Phillip ("Shug") Howard, has since lost three police jobs for tampering with evidence and forgery, and prosecutors concluded that he would be useless at a third trial. "What's right," says Banks, "comes...