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...Through agreements with an array of institutions, artists and collectors, the program encourages ambassadors to become their own art dealers, selecting works that strike their aesthetic fancy. Among the most chosen artists in the diplomatic service: Childe Hassam, Maurice Prendergast, Edward Hopper, Mark Rothko, Jacob Lawrence, Morris Louis, Andrew Wyeth, Robert Rauschenberg, Dale Chihuly and Helen Frankenthaler. Says director Roselyne Swig: "Our ambassadors see the works as an invaluable outreach tool...
DIED. HENRIETTE WYETH, 89, artist; in Roswell, New Mexico. A prodigy in the studio of her demanding father, illustrator N.C. Wyeth, she overcame polio and won renown for her portraits. She painted a moody image of her artist brother Andrew for TIME's Dec. 27, 1963 issue...
...abortion groups, had been reluctant to package or promote their pills as safe for use after sex. The companies are still reluctant: The FDA, in a highly unusual action, approved a new use for the drug even though the manufacturers hadn't asked the agency to. Approved brands include Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories' Ovral, Lo/Ovral, Nordette and Triphasil, and Berlex Laboratories Levlen and Tri-Levlen. Wyeth said that despite the announcement, it would not market pills as a "morning-after" product in the U.S. Although emergency contraception is not an abortive drug, many anti-abortion groups still oppose it. Serrin Foster...
According to Lee and Rabinowitz, many of the early problems this year resulted from key card access problems for the deliverers. For example, a deliverer trying to enter the Law School's Wyeth Hall could not get into the building...
That doesn't mean the FDA has declared Redux to be entirely safe. As a condition of approval, the agency is requiring Wyeth-Ayerst to do follow-up testing. "We're concerned," says Bilstad, "that there could be subtle effects that you can pick up only in a clinical study." Among the possibilities: troubling changes in mood, like depression and aggressiveness, that might derive from a serotonin deficit...