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...tens of thousands of students will go to college. In theory, there is little that students can do to prepare for the dread day, since the S.A.T. supposedly measures innate ability, not learned skills. In practice, however, more students each year desperately cram for the S.A.T.s. A third of public and private schools in the Northeast now offer some sort of S.A.T. preparation course. Elsewhere around the country, thousands of nervous scholars flock to commercial coaching schools, which drill and review them-and woo them with promises of striking results...
Each year some 106,000 U.S. women learn that they have breast cancer. Thanks to improved public awareness, most of them make this discovery while the cancer is still confined to the breast. Following prompt treatment, usually a mastectomy, chances of survival are good: 85% of the women are alive five years later. But for too many women, the cancer is discovered after it has spread to the lymph nodes. By then the odds for survival are nowhere near as high. Even with chemotherapy the cancer often recurs...
...with Fairbanks, Griffith and Charlie Chaplin to form United Artists. For years she had a firm hand in the running of the company. Her fortune was ultimately some $50 million, much of it from real estate. Unlike Douglas Fairbanks, she was frightened by the mass adulation that greeted their public appearances. It was unprecedented, the need of the public to touch these images when they appeared in the flesh. He thrived on it and restlessly roamed the globe as his popularity faded. The rest lessness became sexual and finally caused their divorce in 1936. By then...
Staffers at the Council of Wage and Price Stability insist that they can still enforce the guidelines by making companies targets of public censure, but some of the targets could not care less. Even as Judge Parker was gutting the program, White House Inflation Czar Alfred Kahn was publicly attacking Amerada Hess, an oil company, for breaching the price standards. A Hess spokesman retorted, almost sneeringly: "We regret that the guidelines, as established by the council, do not allow us to comply." Groaned one Administration official: "They're thumbing their noses...
Chicago, which has lost a number of classic buildings-notably Louis Sullivan's Chicago Stock Exchange-managed to save its old public library building after several attempts to replace it with a modernistic structure. The 1897 building had long been inadequate for the central library; it was reincarnated as a branch library and a cultural center, in large part through the efforts of Mrs. Richard Daley, widow of the mayor. Though its vast mosaic-lined entrance halls and twin marble staircases leave little room for a functional library, the interior has been restored in all its original quattrocento palazzo...