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HOSPITALIZED. George Corley Wallace, 63, elected in 1982 to a fourth term as Alabama Governor despite being in a wheelchair since a 1972 assassination attempt; for pain in his lower abdomen and related depression, which his physician says is also caused by his problems as Governor; in Birmingham. It is his third trip to the hospital since his January inauguration, but a spokesman says that Wallace "is still very much in charge...
...funniest scenes in Gurney's The Dining Room depicts a pathetically senile matriarch who interrupts Thanksgiving dinner at her own table to announce that it is time for her to get up and go home. Says Gurney's uncle, Buffalo Physician Ramsdell Gurney: "My mother did exactly what Peter had her do in that play. To see her portrayed that way saddened me, but the audience thought it was terribly amusing." The most striking parallel in Gurney's plays to his life is the marriage between the young lovers' parents in The Middle Ages: four years...
...explain her longstanding tolerance of Tarnower's ill-treatment. The author acknowledges a sense of identification with Harris ("she reminds me of me"). But that partisanship does not prevent her from leading the reader through every squalid stage of Harris' 14-year affair with Tarnower. The Scarsdale physician, the son of humble Jewish immigrants, was a relentless social climber, impressed by the gracious airs and cultivated ways of the classy, Waspish headmistress. Soon, however, he reneged on his proposal to marry her and embarked on a series of affairs. All the while, he kept Harris on the leash...
Though the notes the couple left behind to explain their action have not yet been made public, close friends in Britain believe Koestler was the dominant partner. Said one physician who knew the couple well: "My guess is that she did not take a leading role but that Koestler said, 'The time has come.' " U.S. Psychiatrist Herbert Hendin, author of a 1982 study, Suicide in America, points out that in suicide-pact cases he has studied, a common factor is coercion, usually by the man. Says Hendin: "There is a tendency for suicidal people to say that what...
...judgment. According to an Air Force surgeon at Andrews Air Force Base, any military or commercial pilot on such medication would automatically be grounded. Says he: "Before you fly, that stuff has got to wash out of your system." To learn more about SAS, NASA will be sending physician-astronauts on the next three shuttle flights. They will study the relationship between the eyes and inner-ear system, and the effects on the body of inertia and weightlessness...