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...consider such issues, Roman Catholic Lay Theologian Daniel Callahan and a number of like-minded ethicists and scientists have set up the Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences. Among the 70 members are Geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky, Psychiatrist Willard Gaylin, Theologian John C. Bennett, and U.S. Senator Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota, who three years ago introduced a bill to establish an interdisciplinary committee to examine new scientific problems. It did not pass, but Mondale is trying again this year. "There may still be time," he says, "to establish some ground rules...
...LOST," but who beat him? Joe Frazier? Not to the world outside of the buttons, not even to many people on them. As they see it, Muhammad Ali was no more beaten by Frazier than Jack Johnson was beaten by Jeff Willard. What beat Johnson was the Mann Act (which was made retroactive to obtain his conviction) and the continuous psychological and economic war of attrition waged against him by the white world. The only difference in Ali's case is a refinement of technique...
...instant replays engrave images on a sports fan's mind that cannot be duplicated with the same drama the next day in brush strokes and ink. Today's sports editors can spare neither column inches nor salary for sports cartoonists-not even for the likes of Willard Mullin...
...Cornerback Earsell Mackbee claims that he was cut from the Minnesota Vikings this season for showing up one day in a red lace jumpsuit, a fake fur maxi vest and a slouch hat. "Freedom to express your own personality makes for a winning team," says the 49ers' Ken Willard. "It's the swinging feeling around the clubhouse. A feeling that they're them and I'm me." His teammate Gene Washington, who grooves on $350 Oscar de la Renta suits, deplores the "archaic regimen" of traditional football-club rules. "Room checks...
...Willard Bent, the head of a company that embraces Brooks Brothers, Washington's Julius Garfinckel & Co. and other stores, reports that sales are off in part because "downtown stores are just not showing the results that branches are." Stanley Marcus, president of Neiman-Marcus, has made a fortune in downtown Dallas but now prefers locations away from the center. Compared with them, he says, "it takes a lot more effort and advertising to generate downtown business...