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...luck of the primary has left The Big Apple with a quartet of Little Names in the running for the mayorality. At least there is some color--Barry Farber, a radio talk-show host with a Carolina drawl and a neat knack for hyperbole, has been busily stumping the ethnic street corners, tarring his Republican opponent, State Sen. Roy M. Goodman '51, in at least eight different languages. For his part, Goodman--whom Farber describes as "a Lindsay clone"--has waged a yeomanlike battle against the Conservative nominee's barbs on one side, and massive desertions from his campaign staff...
...stayed, with Koch holding a 20-percentage-point lead in most polls, while Goodman and Farber muddle around in the single-digit range. But if most New Yorkers believe Koch is the answer, they seem to have failed to ask the question: Who is Koch, and why is he going to run Gotham? What makes him different from Cuomo, Beame, or the rest of the lifeless pack...
...SIMPLE FACT is that Koch's difference from his opponents is only a matter of degree. Less bizarre than Farber, better financed than Goodman, more politically subtle than Cuomo, he is the best actor for the only script that New York voters will accept. The past decade of failed idealism, followed by near-bankruptcy, has provided a political mood in the city that will accept nothing but an energetic, well-connected centrist politico, one with an aura of reform but a mind for conformity. And Koch is such a man. Clearly, anyone with the gall to mount a massive campaign...
...addition to the FDA, the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute have both dismissed Laetrile as useless. The evaluation is supported by Dr. Emile Frei, director of the Sidney Farber Cancer Research Center, who branded it a "complete fraud...
...think that the study should lead to the banning of saccharine." Dr. Emile Frei, director of the Sidney Farber Cancer Institute, a Harvard affiliate, said yesterday. He added that because abnormally high doses of saccharine injected into rodents caused very few cases of cancer, the study does not effectively demonstrate that saccharine is harmful to humans...