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Died. Max Yasgur, 53, upstate New York dairy farmer who, when original plans for a 1969 weekend rock concert went awry because of local regulations, became the patron saint of the counterculture when he opened his 600-acre farm to more than 300,000 uninhibited, youthful celebrators of the Woodstock festival; of an apparent heart attack; in Marathon...
Hannoun reported that by using a technique devised by Australian Immunologist Fazekas de Saint Groth, his research team had artificially caused such mutants to evolve. He was confident that they had anticipated all the minor changes that nature could produce in the next five years. Thus, he claims, they have produced a vaccine effective against all strains that may develop naturally from now until about 1978. Samples prepared before the London flu strain emerged, he said, had proved 84% effective in tests on human subjects...
Frenchmen have also been stirred by the jailing in Belgium of respected Gynecologist Willy Peers for performing 300 abortions in his Namur clinic. The Belgians are even more aroused. A Peers defense committee has collected 200,000 signatures defending the "lay saint," as he is called, and 1,000 Belgians, including 300 doctors, have admitted that they have arranged, performed or undergone abortions...
BOSTON REPERTORY THEATER. The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail after Thoreau. The Little Prince ater Saint-Exupery, The Thirteen Clocks after Thurber, in repertory, as you might expect. Marlboro and Berkeley Streets in Boston...
Minister. That he did, compiling a record of 552 wins and only 140 losses in a quarter-century of coaching at U.C.L.A. Over the years "Saint John," as some rival coaches refer to him, has mellowed a bit. He has done away with the mandatory coat-and-tie rule on road trips. Curfews are still enforced, but he does not sit in the hotel lobby as of old to check on stragglers. And he no longer insists on crew cuts. Even so, at the first signs of the shaggy look he will pointedly ask: "Isn't that barbers...