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Until 1963, dimethyl sulfoxide was just another liquid solvent used in industry. Then University of Oregon researchers reported that DMSO had varied medicinal properties-that, in fact, it was a wonder drug. Daubed on the skin, they said, it soothed not only the superficial pain of burns, but also the deep pain of crippling rheumatoid arthritis. It helped burns and wounds to heal faster; it eased itching-and cured athlete's foot...
...alumni tyranny at Princeton is insurmountable. Besides its control over the administration, the alumni directly run all the clubs. Any decision a club makes must be ratified by its graduate board, the old men who keep the club solvent. The chairman of each club grad board is a member of the Grad ICC, and that organization can singlehandedly do whatever it wants to the clubs without University or undergraduate interference...
...invitation, and openings usually occur only when a member dies. Though the club is frequently accused of snobbism, past President Robert Snyder, a corporation lawyer, declares that "economic status is unknown and unimportant. I imagine that William Rockefeller [an attorney and great-grandnephew of John D.] is solvent, but all we talk about is whether the tenor is any good...
Perhaps because of these problems of financing, location, and sales promotion, new cities like Reston have not become self-sufficient entities with perfect social mixes and solvent treasuries...
...almost any standards, David Olgivy is a successful man. He is handsome, imposing, articulate, urbane, powerful and, one presumes, whoppingly solvent. He is so successful, in fact, that he wrote a book about his trade and it promptly became a best-seller. He is the kind of man whose name looks good on the roster of trustee boards, on cultural committees, on the speaking circuit--and indeed he is on all of these. When he comes to Harvard he can speak merely of what he did the previous day and attract a good sized audience. And yet he is neither...