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...wonder what the message of my upbringing was all about," he says. "That is why I became a rebel against arbitrary authority." That rebellion has had mixed success. Cole recommended making the Pill available to eleven-year-olds but this never really caught fire. But he was a pioneer in the fight that led to the liberalization of abortion law in Britain...
Died. Stanton Macdonald-Wright, 83, an American pioneer in nonobjective art and co-founder (with Morgan Russell) in 1913 of the "synchromistic" school of painting; of a heart attack; in Pacific Palisades, Calif. While studying art in Paris, Wright read about 19th century discoveries in optics and color and decided to eliminate from his paintings everything but chromatic rhythm and form. Comparing color to sound, Wright often selected visual harmonies by striking chords and intervals on a piano. His work influenced such American artists as Thomas Hart Benton, Arthur B. Davies and Joseph Stella...
Minnesota's journalists were as excited as their French counterpart about the cover, but for different reasons. The St. Paul Pioneer Press noted that TIME had emphasized Minneapolis and virtually ignored its twin city. "If this article brings Minnesota an influx of fast-buck sharpies from the east, or smog-befuddled escapees from California," said the Press, "let them settle in Minneapolis. We won't be childish about it." "If the article seems to slide over some of our problems, that's all right," said a Minneapolis Tribune editorial. "Our problems, to one degree or another...
Died. Dr. Selman Abraham Waksman, 85, a pioneer in microbiology who coined the term "antibiotic" in 1941 and two years later isolated streptomycin, the first antibiotic treatment for tuberculosis; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hyannis, Mass. The Ukrainian-born scientist, who came to America in 1910, headed the Rutgers team that spent four years sifting through 100,000 different microbes to find streptomycin; in 1952 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for his achievements in medicine...
...challenges of scarcity and rocketing prices are bringing out old-fashioned ingenuity along with the complaints, evoking a pioneer atmosphere in which acquiring victuals is once again an important matter even for the affluent. Kirsten Lumpkin, the wife of a Seattle construction man, bought a side of beef in company with some neighbors and has been canning her own fruit. "It's unsettling," she said last week while preparing to make sauerkraut for the first time in her life. "All of a sudden, eating has become sort of a focal point, and I think that...