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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wearing a pencil-thin Adolphe Menjou mustache, impeccably dressed in a dark blue suit and sporting a stickpin in his stylish striped cravat, Dr. Eugene Balthazar, 73, looks like Hollywood's image of a society doctor. But Balthazar's practice is not on Manhattan's Park Avenue or in some well-heeled suburb but in the decaying downtown area of Aurora, an industrial center (pop. 79,000) in northern Illinois. There, for at least 3½ days a week, Balthazar ministers to Aurora's poor-Mexicans, Appalachian whites, Indians and blacks. Indeed, anyone with real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Good Dr. Bal | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

...pointed out that the FAA'S own study indicated that the environmental impact of the Concorde on New York would be small, its effect on the Dulles area all but nonexistent. Furthermore, he insisted, if Britain and France seriously believed that a limited number of Concorde flights might thin out the ozone layer, they would not be advocating flights that could harm their peoples too. "Your environment is our environment," he told the hearing. "Your ozone layer is our ozone layer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The SST: Hour of Decision | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

Their conversation revolved hilariously around the question of whether or not a waxy yellow buildup was forming on Mary's kitchen floor. The scene was an expert put-on of the soaps' traditional method of stretching a thin script to full length...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Tickled to Death | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...school, where Hans decided to become a playwright. "You can stand pain if you can write about it," he declared to a friend. The fledgling author became, says Bredsdorff, "a man of deep and apparently irreconcilable contrasts." Heinrich Heine, who observed Andersen in action, called the writer "a tall thin man with hollow sunken cheeks [whose] manner reveals the sort of fawning servility that princes like." All his adult life, Andersen oscillated between vanity and self-abnegation, pride and humility. He was a Christian who rejected the main dogmas of religion, a generous miser, a snob 'who championed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ugly Duckling | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...Stanley Gershoff theory: "If there's one problem that Jean has it's that he's spread too thin. It's only in the last two years that I've heard him talk of being tired...

Author: By Martha S. Hewson, | Title: Jean Mayer: You Are What You Eat | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

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