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...that the idea of experimenting on them is morally repugnant. Nowhere did it arouse more anger than at the exclusive Stone Ridge Country Day School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, Md. A group of students there, including the 17-year-old daughter of former Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate Sargent Shriver, asked school authorities for permission to protest the proposed rules by picketing...
Such fastidiousness has gotten the state in trouble with the Federal Government. Under the leadership of liberal Governor Francis W. Sargent, the Bay State has refused to become part of the FBI's National Crime Information Center, partly on the ground that the FBI records arrests as well as convictions-a man could be in the criminal file even if he was innocent. In a letter to his second cousin, U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson, Sargent took a swipe at Watergate ("To be frank, recent revelations concerning top government employees do not inspire confidence"), and explained that Massachusetts would...
...during an inspection of an Illinois ranch that only 4% of the 220 million U.S. citizens work on farms, Chao Chi-hua, a deputy director in Peking's Foreign Ministry, marveled: "In China, it still takes four people to feed five." Humorously urged by Massachusetts Governor Francis W. Sargent "to spread the word around that the Bay State has the finest lobster and the best Governor," Chu Mu-chi responded diplomatically: "We will never forget the lobster, but unhappily we cannot campaign for a Governor...
Murphy had a dual career as an employee of the Boston post office and as an artist's model. John Singer Sargent, the painter and muralist, spotted him at a YMCA calisthenics class and hired him as a model...
Murphy worked for Sargent until 1933, and the experience he gained with Sargent launched him on a lengthy carer as a model for many other artists. He currently teaches corrective anatomy, which he describes as the "missing link between medicine and surgery...