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...cancer research boom of the last decade may, as Frei and others come close to admitting, reflect only the concern of legislators for a visible disease, second only to heart disease in its annual toll. Dr. Kurt J. Isselbacher, Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine at Mass General Hospital, has an official interest in the academic acceptance of the field. He is chairman of Harvard's cancer committee and says, as does Frei, that the basic biology of the cancer tumor, and the subtle distinctions that make its cells malignant, are valid concerns for the basic scientist/pure academic...
...with a chemist named Charles Lachman, who was to become the l in Revlon. Working out of a rented room on the West Side, the three began making a creamy, opaque, nonstreak nail polish that Lachman had developed. Initially, they sold to beauty parlors, which were then enjoying a boom because of the popularity of the permanent wave. By 1941, Revlon was selling to nearly all the nation's estimated 100,000 beauty salons. Before long, the company also was offering women lipstick and nail polish that matched-for "matching lips and fingertips," as one famous ad slogan proclaimed...
...curious way, one of the morbidly titillating preoccupations of our time. Novelist Walker Percy has written of "the old authentic thrill of the Bomb and ... the heart's desire of the alienated man to see vines sprouting through the masonry." Since the days of the bomb-shelter boom in the early '60s, nuclear holocaust has receded a bit in the apocalyptic imagination, replaced now by visions of economic collapse-industry's furnaces grown cold, fleets of cars broken down, and frenzied looters rampaging in the street...
...began, a single-engine airplane circled Milwaukee County Stadium towing a sign that spelled out in giant red letters: DR. KISSINGER-ISRAEL IS NOT FOR SALE. Kissinger studiously ignored the aerial lobbying, hoping it would go away, and it did. Then the stadium announcer came on the loudspeaker to boom out a hearty welcome to "Dr. Harry Kissinger." (This was not Kissinger's only such difficulty: one well-wisher hailed him as "the best Defense Secretary we've ever...
...businesses are as nerve-racking as the chartering of behemoth supertankers to carry oil, and until recently few tycoons played the risks with such consummate cool as Norway's Hilmar Reksten, 77. The tanker business seems always to swing from boom times of frantic demand and soaring charter rates to busts during which expensive tankers lie idle and unwanted. Reksten, a ramrod-straight six-footer and lone-wolf operator, started out as a shipping clerk; in 1929 he bought a freighter cheap, parlayed it into a modest fleet (thanks in part to two rich wives), then seized on slumps...