Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Avon, the queen of door-to-door cosmetics, bought Tiffany, the Fifth Avenue squire, in 1979 for $104 million, Wall Street's wise old hands wondered how the marriage would work. It did not. Last week Avon asked Morgan Stanley, its investment banker, to find a buyer for Tiffany...
Sitting in a stainless-steel vat of liquid nitrogen at Queen Victoria Medical Center in Melbourne, chilled to a crisp-320° F, are 200 glass tubes, each holding a microscopic embryo. Just two to eight cells in size, they are babies in waiting, life on ice, kept for possible use by participants in the hospital's in-vitro fertilization (IVF) program. Last week hospital officials were stunned to learn that two of their charges could be heirs to a million-dollar fortune. The news set armchair ethicists around the world abuzz and forced Australian policymakers to ponder...
That idea is fraught with problems, not the least of which are medical. According to Dr. Carl Wood, head of Queen Victoria's IVF unit, freezing techniques used in 1981 were rudimentary, and the Rios embryos are probably no longer viable. Moreover, many legal experts say that once the embryos are implanted, they lose any semblance of a claim to the Rios estate. Says Victoria Law Institute Spokesman Chris Wray: "A donor embryo does not belong to the donors of the genetic material but to the parents to whom the child is ultimately born...
...here or in Australia." Experts in both countries have suggested that the wishes of the parents should be paramount in determining the fate of leftover zygotes, and that these wishes should be put in writing. Unfortunately, it is too late for the Rioses to do so. Baffled officials at Queen Victoria hospital are therefore looking for guidance from a committee appointed in 1982 by the state of Victoria to study legal questions raised by IVF technology. The committee's report is due within two months, and with the embryos' fate hanging in the balance, its conclusions...
...critic for TIME and the Nation in the 1940s, Bergreen shows, Agee left a collection of brilliantly discursive film reviews that helped establish the standards for the art. He wrote two moving and complex novels. He composed at least five screenplays, including that shaggy Bogart-Hepburn classic, The African Queen. He turned out reams of verse, published and unpublished, and won the prestigious Yale Younger Poets award...