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...less than a week before his death. · Died. Oliver Adams Quayle III, 52, widely respected pollster; of a heart attack; in Hanover, N.H. Most of Quayle's surveys were commissioned by Democratic politicians for private use; his clients included Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. The high-priced pulse taker never tried to equivocate when bearing bad news. "There is no point to the work," he once said, "if you're not telling the truth." · Died. Mohammed Ayub Khan, 66, imposing, soldierly former President of Pakistan; of a heart attack; in Islamabad, Pakistan. Trained at Britain...
...World War I vet, a past body-guard to two Massachusetts governors, a former boxing champion of the 135 pounders, Sullivan, known mostly as "Fizzy," now works at Harvard as a ticket taker. I met him at the Harvard-Yale hockey game...
When she tried to find a modeling agency to handle her, they all turned her down. Finally, in 1966, she found one taker, the Ford Agency, which happened to be the best in town. "Eileen Ford said she'd hire me if I got my teeth and nose fixed. I said I would when I had the money, but I figured it might take me a while to get around to it-if ever." That time never came. That gapless smile in ads is not a sign of capitulation. It is a result of a tiny false tooth Hutton...
...Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Arthur H. Goldberg sat through two hours of the Andy Warhol film Blue Movie, then signed warrants for the seizure of the film and the arrest of the manager, projectionist and ticket taker. The Supreme Court had ruled in 1961 that authorities must grant a preliminary hearing before subjecting the contents of a bookstore to a civil seizure (thus possibly driving it out of business). The Justices are now being asked to extend that standard to seizures of evidence for criminal prosecution. They therefore must decide whether lawyers for both sides should have an opportunity...
...doubt the mothers of many such infants are simply and directly told by their doctors that the children they carried for nine months were stillborn. The doctor thus participates in mercy-killing. Alas, the merciful physician--possessor of the "God syndrome"--giver and taker of life...