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When she was 5 1/2 months old, Traci Cohn of Rockville, Md., developed a 104 degrees F fever and cried inconsolably for three days. Ever since that illness Traci, now 17, has been mentally retarded. Her family and one of her doctors believe that the fever and subsequent mental damage were the direct result of the pertussis, or whooping cough, inoculations that she received in the first months of her life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Comeback for Whooping Cough | 6/30/1986 | See Source »

Procrastinators and large families are great fans of the service. Traci Laffer of Los Angeles, the wife of supply-side Economist Arthur Laffer, figures that she has used Federal Express 20 times in the past year. Shipments to her traveling husband or the Laffer children away at school have included cufflinks, homework, a party dress and a computer part. Says she: "My husband thinks I'm crazy, but when you need something quickly it's the only way to get it there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Delivering the Goodies | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

ENGAGED. Arthur B. Laffer, 42, University of Southern California economist and author of the controversial supply-side tax curve named after him; and Traci Lynn Hickman, 23, a U.S.C. senior majoring in political science; in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. The couple met when she had a job in the office of the business-school dean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 23, 1982 | 8/23/1982 | See Source »

...been training in vaudeville for years; maybe the mechanicals don't laugh hard enough at those gay old parochial Elizabethan jokes abous syphilis and sonnets, but their sense of timing and horseplay is just superb. Terry Malick's Bottom, who "gleeks on occasion" with wonderfully oafish conceit, and Philip Traci's absurdly studied Quince are the true leaders of this lot, and a grining David Riggs makes an enchanting Thisby in the interlude...

Author: By Robert W. Gordon, | Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream | 5/7/1962 | See Source »

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