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Fascinating Questions. Ken Swier's huge family includes 61 relatives living in or near the town of Colton. Until recently, most of them simply tried not to think about their susceptibility to the disease, which is now also killing Ken's brother Vernon, 35. But last summer, encouraged by a local chiropractor who had been treating them, some of the Swiers sought help from the National Genetics Foundation, which was formed in 1953, and now traces and helps treat about 2,000 known hereditary illnesses. The N.G.F. tackled some fascinating questions: How did the Swier family pick...
...reformers, appointing an ombudsman and a full-time I.V. coordinator. The California regents recently voted to spend $600,000 in Isla Vista during the next two years. Planning will consume $50,000. Some of the funds wilt purchase a vacant lot that I.V.ers turned into a park. Nonetheless, Chancellor Vernon Cheadle still seems baffled by the I.V. phenomenon. "If we had to do it all over again," he says. "I don't know what we could or should have done better...
UARDS. Henry Allison, San Diego State, 6 ft. 2½ in., 250 lbs.; and Vernon Holland, Tennessee State, 6 ft. 6 in., 276 lbs. A converted tight end, Allison is rated by one scout as "very likely the year's best pro prospect." He has the speed to pull out and lead sweeps, and is a tower of strength in front of a passing quarterback. Holland is perhaps even quicker, a kind of souped-up tank who simply blows people out of the way on a running play. Though he is still developing, experts agree that he will have...
...Mental Hygiene. Solomon not only turned down the job, but he went out of his way to praise Egeberg. "Dr. Egeberg," he said, "is well qualified to lead the nation in this field if the Administration will only give him adequate support." Others mentioned for the post are Dr. Vernon Wilson, director of HEW's Health Services and Mental Health Administration, and Dr. Charles Edwards, head of the Food and Drug Administration...
Wolfe bolsters his argument with a little historical run-through, drawing some interesting parallels to 19th century society. He even cites social thinkers- Vernon L. Parrington, Wolfe identifies as "the literary historian," while managing to cite the triad of Seymour Martin Lipset, Nathan Glazer, and Kenneth Keniston in one of the sentences that follows- but more in the way of demonstrating his own brand of Academic Chic. (Wolfe took a doctorate in American Studies from Yale, and, like many a modern-day journalist, still yearns to justify his existence to the boys in the ivory tower he left behind...