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DIED. Carl Braestrup, 85, physicist who sounded early alarms about radiation's dangers and co-invented the Theratron, a cobalt-therapy machine patented in 1953 and still used to treat cancer; of complications from a stroke; in Middletown, Conn...
...recent weekend in Oregon's Dunes National Recreation Area, carousing, boozing, drug-using dune-buggy jockeys brawled so fiercely that officials had to set up a field hospital to treat the casualties. In Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a ranger was assaulted one night when he inspected a parked car and chanced on a kidnaper and his victim. Everglades National Park in Florida has become a major thoroughfare for illegal drugs from Colombia and elsewhere. Arizona has robberies, assaults, rapes and sex parties in its Salt River area, and the Wasatch Front in Utah...
When the sun is shining, the S.M.A.P. can treat it all as a game, like trivia questions. Who played second base for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1940? Pete Coscarart, that's who. What did a haircut cost in those days? Fifty cents. And a Hershey bar? Five cents. When the S.M.A.P. reads that E.T. earned $17 million over the July 4 weekend, he remembers paying 25? to see Gone With the Wind. In fact, he remembers when Gone With the Wind's gross of $40 million established a record that was expected to stand forever, like Ty Cobb...
With everything seemingly under control, the hijackers planted sticks of explosives in the toilet compartment, then benignly granted the request of the steward that he be allowed to take the copilot back to the second cabin and treat his minor wounds. That was a mistake. As the pilot, unknown to the rebels, began to circle over Shanghai, the copilot and steward started to plot in whispers with nearby Chinese passengers. The plane continued to circle for 2½ hr., until it was so low on fuel that the air conditioning went off and the pilot cut two of the engines...
...calm himself before delivering a speech, admits that his study poses an ethical dilemma. Propranolol is strong stuff. It belongs to a class of drugs known as beta blockers, which interfere with the nervous stimulation of the cardiovascular system (by blocking "beta receptors" on cells). Though widely used to treat high blood pressure, severe chest pain (angina) and to prevent second heart attacks, beta blockers can be dangerous for people with asthma, hay fever and some types of diabetes and heart conditions. "It would worry me considerably if propranolol were being taken on the street," says Dr. Robert Temple...