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...sooner had Robert Lockwood signed that waiver than he had more than tax troubles. He had wife troubles. Pretty Margaret Ann Lockwood, 28, gathered up her children-René, 2, and ten-month-old Robbie-and marched into the Miami tax collector's office to demand return of her husband's paycheck. Says she: "I told them Robbie had just got out of the hospital, where he was treated for acute anemia, and we needed the money for medicine. They wouldn't listen. They're rather coldhearted and impersonal down there." But Margaret Lockwood...
...children did the rest. Daughter René, dipping into a box of raisins, managed to spill about half of them on the tax office floor, happily trampled them into a gooey mess. Son Robbie wet his diapers, and Margaret Lockwood calmly changed them, draping the reeking castoffs over a chair...
...authorities on infectious diseases and a pioneer of the antibiotic age; disease is an aspect of man's adaptation to his environment, and as his environment changes, so do his diseases-but they do not disappear. In Mirage of Health, published this week (Harper; $4), famed Microbiologist René Jules Dubos of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (though no physician) applies laboratory logic to visions of a medical utopia...
...official of his Ministry for the Recovery of Stolen Property-"someone that we know"-had accepted a bribe of $400,000 for unfreezing a frozen bank account of more than $900,000. "We are studying the case in order to execute him," said the Prime Minister. Next day one René Ray Rivero, an official of the Ministry for the Recovery of Stolen Property who was under suspicion, shot and killed himself at Havana's police headquarters. Waiting anxiously to hear their fate were hundreds of Ousted Dictator Fulgencio Batista's civilian government employees, now in jail...
Tillich lives with his wife in a cluttered, 3½-room apartment on Chauncy Street in Cambridge (his son René Stephen, 24, is a Harvard student, his daughter Erdmuthe Christiane Farris, 33, a Manhattan housewife). At 72, Tillich has all his old intellectual vigor, though he may doze off for moments during a conversation, and he goes through a regular, 10-minute "yawning period" every day at 6 p.m. An occasional stimulant at that time: cognac, which is kept in his office filing cabinet under "H" (for Hennessy). Tillich is likely to be on the road lecturing three...