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...When I watched my mother, a human wreck, hanging in that chair, I couldn't stand it any more. So I shouted in her ear, 'It's all right, Mother! I will take care of you.' The next day I gave her the fatal shot...
...with the pluralistic approach which has been its best tradition; but I do not interpret this as an attack on "neo-classical" analysis (which must be taught and learned) nor as an assignment of quotas to "radical economists." Indeed, a staffing policy aimed at filling "political" slots would be fatal to the intellectual quality of the department. What matters is increased concern with the broader aspects of economics and the socio-political forces in which the economic processes are embedded, a concern which should be shared (as should be that for other phases of economics) by people representing a variety...
Entertainer Ann-Margret, 31, seems to be able to take anything in her stride -including a near fatal 20-ft. fall. Though she suffered a broken jaw, five facial fractures and a broken arm, it took only three months for her to get back on the nightclub circuit. Now she is ready to go before a nationwide audience and is busy taping the NBC special When You're Smiling, to be aired April 4. Gussied up in silk, energetically doing high kicks as the notorious "lady in red" who did in Gangster John Dillinger, Ann-Margret looked better than...
Undergraduate education has been one of the chief casualties of the late sixties. Harvard has been politicized over the past few years. No one (excluding street people) has shown any desire for a University that is a sanctuary. Harvard remains ideologically divided, through the division isn't fatal, and in time we'll probably pride ourselves on our "ideological heterogeneity." Given the current quietist strain in undergraduate life, that time is coming very rapidly indeed. For the last five years the University has successfully dodged a number of issues of conscience--not necessarily irresolvable national problems, but local issues like...
...School of Public Health and the leading Soviet cardiological institute Saturday announced plans to undertake a joint study of the fatal heart disease known as sudden death...