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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many fathers are giving sons and daughters travel and entertainment cards too. They find this not only gives children the equivalent of emergency cash for airline tickets and service-station expenses, but also gives them facilities to eat, lodge and shop. There are few cases of overspending-and the rare ones that do occur are easily controlled when the parent gets his monthly bill...
After dinner at home, sometimes with students, he reads still more, gives a speech or, on rare occasion, throws or attends a party. He was perhaps the most visible guest at Truman Capote's lavish bal masque in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel in 1966, dancing for a while with a candelabrum, then tossing it around, quarterback style, with George Plimpton. "I would say," says Capote, "that he was rather flamboyant...
Last week the Chloromycetin controversy boiled up again in hearings before the Senate Monopoly Subcommittee. Expert medical witnesses agreed that serious and fatal reactions to Chloromycetin are relatively rare. The University of Illinois' Dr. William R. Best suggested that only one patient out of 20,000 or even 100,000 might develop them. Dr. William Dameshek of Manhattan's Mount Sinai School of Medicine put the rate at about one in 10,000. Either way, it sounds few enough. But so many Americans took Chloromycetin that by 1964 the American Medical Association counted 298 U.S. cases of serious...
...Playwright John McGrath. In the latter, the action takes place in the death cell of a U.S. prison, where Bakke, awaiting electrocution at midnight, ingeniously and humorously torments his guards, the warden and the priest who is making one last attempt to save his soul. McGrath has a rare English ear for U.S. speech and manner, and the actors, mostly unknowns, keep their American accents accurate and consistent...
PITIRIM A. SOROKIN, who died this weekend, made a rare public appearance at Harvard two years ago at a "Speak-Out" on the Vietnam War. Compared with the score of illustrious professors who spoke before him, Sorokin was not well known. But in spite of his age and his ill health, he overwhelmed the audience with his fervor, his intellect, and his unbending hostility to America's foreign policy...