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...little better in terms of range of motion and comfort on the water bed than conventional bedding," he says. But Dr. Rene Caillet, a rehabilitation specialist at Santa Monica Hospital Medical Center, is unconvinced. "If you lie on your stomach, the water bed allows you to increase the sway or the sag of the back," he notes...
...delicate balance that goes into the making of many land-use decisions. In particular, citizens trying to limit development in their localities may find themselves at a disadvantage. Says Lee Ruck, counsel to the National Association of Counties: "An outcry of community concern is now less likely to sway a member of a board of supervisors or a city-planning committee faced with a high-priced lawyer in a three-piece suit who is threatening money damages." In the view of the real estate industry, the court's ruling tilts toward accountability. Explains Gus Bauman, litigation counsel for the National...
These echoes contribute a great deal to a novel that is stronger on atmosphere than plot. In the beginning, the U.S. has just defeated Spain, gaining sway over the Caribbean and, by way of the Philippines, a foothold in the Pacific. A lot of talk ensues about whether an American empire is a good idea. The speakers include William McKinley, McKinley's Secretary of State John Hay, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Adams, William Randolph Hearst and Henry James, who comes onstage briefly to wonder, "How can we, who cannot honestly govern ourselves, take up the task of governing others?" James' point...
DIED. Sammy Kaye, 77, folksy bandleader and host of popular music shows on radio (Sunday Serenade Room) and television (The Sammy Kaye Show), known for his soothing, reedy "Swing and sway with Sammy Kaye" dance sound and for gimmicky contests that gave audience volunteers a chance to lead his band, and whose first major musical success, a version of the title song from the movie Rosalie, in 1937, was followed by such hits as The White Cliffs of Dover, Daddy, Remember Pearl Harbor and Harbor Lights; of cancer; in Ridgewood...
...absence of dissenters at the Faculty vote--which many attribute to the extreme opposing position Mansfield espoused during the Faculty debate--is in stark contrast to the heated debate on campus concerning an Afro-Am department. Only after student strikes and a takeover of University Hall did students sway the faculty on the creation of a new department...