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...estimated 300,000 of Tibet's 1,300,000 people have been exterminated, many by savage methods, since the first Peking general moved into Lhasa's Palace of the Gods. In a few cases, entire villages have been machine-gunned. So many still seek to escape the reign of terror by suicide that the Chinese have strung barbed-wire barricades along the banks of the Kyichu (River of Happiness) to keep people from throwing themselves in. At least 80,000 Tibetans, including the god-king Dalai Lama, have chosen exile. Another 200,000, including his deputy, the Panchen...
California's Unruh, anxious to win over the state's fractious liberals so that he can seek the governorship in 1970 (he has even been seen recently on vacation sporting a Nehru jacket and love beads), talked up a switch to Teddy. McGovern and Connecticut Senator Abe Ribicoff persuaded Daley to delay his anticipated endorsement of Humphrey for a few days to see if the draft-Teddy move could get rolling. Daley needed little persuading; Humphrey is his fourth choice, after Lyndon Johnson, then Bobby Kennedy, and finally Teddy Kennedy...
...actually works inside the human system, it is impossible to forge a link between the drug and a child's malformation. Lenz answered that thalidomide has been shown to cause phocomelia in rhesus and other monkey species in which the condition does not occur naturally. For doctors to seek comparable proof in man would be at least unethical and in most countries illegal. Said Lenz: "You are demanding a kind of scientific perfectionism that is not applicable to medicine. Despite the statistical methods we are forced to use, one can still conclude that there is a safety borderline, which...
Pritzker & Pritzker is a Chicago law firm that has not had a case in years, and could not care less. "We neither seek nor accept clients," says Partner Jay A. Pritzker. "There would be too much conflict of interest and not enough time." That is quite an understatement. By astutely minding their own business, the entrepreneurial Pritzkers have put together a portfolio of business interests with assets approaching $500 million. The Pritzkers-Jay, Brothers Robert and Donald, plus Father Abram and Uncle Jack-run one of the nation's largest and least-known family enterprises...
...STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: Coined in its present context by Connecticut Newspaper Editor Charles Dudley Warner in 1850, when he wrote: "True it is that politics makes strange bedfellows." He stole it from Shakespeare's The Tempest (Act II, Scene 2), in which Trinculo, forced by a storm to seek refuge under a sheet with the abhorrent Caliban, says: "There is no other shelter hereabout: misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows...