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...Dade W. Moeller, professor of Engineering Environmental Health and associate director, Kresge Center for Environmental Health; Roger L. Nichols, Heinz Professor of Microbiology and associate director, Center for the Prevention of Infectious Diseases; Hilton A. Salhanick, Hisaw Professor of Reproductive Physiology; Frederick J. Stare, professor of Nutrition; Thomas H. Weller, Strong Professor of Tropical Public Health and director, Center for the Prevention of Infectious Diseases; John B. Wyon, senior lecturer on Population Studies; and Alonzo S. Yerby, professor of Health Services Administration...
...playmaker" seems to be the experienced Keith Weller from English First Division, Leicester City, chosen to represent England's National team for the past seven years...
...Before the last number of Pickwick had appeared in its green paper covers, its plump and amiable little hero with his gaiters and benevolently glittering spectacles, together with Sam Weller and his other friends, had become more than national figures-they had become a mania. Nothing like it had ever happened before. There were Pickwick chintzes, Pickwick cigars, Pickwick hats, Pickwick canes with tassels, Pickwick coats; and there were Weller corduroys and Boz cabs. There were innumerable plagiarisms, parodies, and sequels-a Pickwick Abroad, by G.W.M. Reynolds; a Posthumous Papers of the Cadger Club; a Posthumous Notes of the Pickwickian...
However, the games must go on between them unless they want to go indoors and share the dispiriting company of the televegetables and endure endless chronicles of aches and pains. They enumerate their own heart burns between the games. Weller is divorced, alienated from his family, and went broke in business when he was fleeced by his partners. Fonsia threw her husband out (or perhaps devoured him) and so estranged her only son that he won't even come to see her on visitors' days. Unfortunately, information delivered as narration chloroforms an audience rather than charging it with...
...ending is gaspingly melodramatic and violates the stream of plausible behavior. Maddened by Fonsia's gloating shout of "Gin!" Weller takes a murderous swipe at her with his cane. When she ducks, he tries to demolish the card table in his fury. Perhaps Mike Nichols, whose unobtrusive direction is a model of purity throughout, ought to have the cane shatter on the final blow to indicate the end of this pitiable pair's relationship and of their lives. - T.E. Kalem