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...Public Health Service's Center for Disease Control reports new evidence that Amanita phalloides may not be as uncommon in the New World as hitherto believed. For example, in October two people died of mushroom poisoning-a 37-year-old Martha's Vineyard resident who collected Amanita phalloides in his backyard and a 70-year-old Bronx man who picked the mushrooms in a New York park and ate them...
...folk wisdom seem truer than in the field of master drawings. The springs have certainly dwindled. Fifty years ago, the appearance on the auction block of a sheet by one of the great father figures of 15th and 16th century drawing-Dürer, Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo-was not uncommon. Today one would hardly be more surprised if a live dodo waddled into the Parke-Bernet auction room. Drawings also are not a young man's hobby; they demand a degree of patient connoisseurship (tinged with philatelic mania) that only the old usually have. But late last month...
...apparently not uncommon for some of Kennedy's closest male friends to send willing young women to the White House. One newspaper columnist was once overheard telling a smashing brunette how to get into the mansion with a note that he wanted delivered to Kennedy. Kennedy later called the columnist back to confirm: "I got your message-both of them." Secret Service agents would pass such casual women under presidential instructions, although they worried about it. More frequent visitors, including a number of airline stewardesses, underwent full Secret Service investigations...
Neither experience is uncommon. Under the Federally Insured Student Loan (FISL) program, the Government since 1965 has directly guaranteed repayment of almost $4 billion in loans made to students by banks or other lenders-often schools themselves. All students attending institutions approved by the program are eligible for loans. Students are charged no more than 7% annual interest; the Government pays as much as 3% more to make the interest rate competitive with that of other kinds of loans. Repayment begins nine months after a student's graduation...
...most Americans, Gerald R. Ford is a commoner of uncommon candor, an Everyman struggling manfully with the job of President. To Reporter Richard Reeves, Ford is "slow, unimaginative and not very articulate"-and none too candid either. In A Ford, Not a Lincoln (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $8.95), a new and widely discussed account of Ford's first 100 days, Reeves calls Ford's rise to the presidency "a triumph of lowest-common-denominator politics, the survival of the man without enemies, the least objectionable alternative." He adds: "The President of the U.S. is just another...