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...disease shortens breath, causes chronic coughing, renders its victims incapable of sustained physical exertion and eventually kills. Less predictably, but in tragic numbers, asbestos produces cancers of the lung, colon or stomach (TIME, Jan. 28). No level of exposure is known to be safe. Children playing around asbestos dumps, wives who wash the work clothes of their asbestos-laborer husbands and people living near asbestos factories have been affected...
Perhaps the most amazing part of being at Harvard though is the "freshness" of the experience. You can never anticipate just how things will turn out. The run of chaos slows for a moment while you catch your breath, and two months past seems ever so far away...
...companies are based.) Yamani had all he could do, however, to keep the other O.P.E.C. members from raising prices still higher. The Saudis are not likely to fare better in Vienna. It seems that consumers in oil-burning countries would be well advised not to hold their breath...
...enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumphs of high achievement and with the worst if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly. I pledge to you tonight that as long as I have a breath of life in my body I shall continue in that spirit...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra staged a celebration in honor of its late great conductor. Participants included Koussevitzky's most famous pupil, Leonard Bernstein, 55, who on doctors' orders conducted only two programs. Just three weeks before Lenny had been hospitalized in Bridgeport, Conn., suffering from a shortness of breath; no diagnosis of his illness has been made public. One music lover who stopped by at Tanglewood to give him a big hug: Joan Kennedy, recently returned from a rest and therapy session at Connecticut's Silver Hill Foundation...