Word: groups
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...years, what bothered the twelve who opposed her was principally her gender. Philosopher Jean Guitton, 78, grumbled that bringing a woman into the academy "is like putting a dove in the rabbit hutch. One inhabitant like that makes the place overpopulated." After 45 years of work, the group's current project, a definitive French dictionary, has reached the fs, which means that Yourcenar has arrived just in time to explain féminisme...
...mind of its daily rubbish and replace the clutter with a strictness of feeling released by apparently simple objects. Noguchi is 75, and at present three exhibitions in Manhattan celebrate his anniversary: a show of his theater and public-space designs at the Whitney Museum, a group of "landscape tables" at the Andre Emmerich Gallery and a number of smaller stone pieces at the Pace Gallery...
...studies, conducted by Dr. Alan Morrison and Julie Buring of the Harvard School of Public Health and reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, focused on the dietary habits of 592 bladder-cancer patients and a comparable control group of people in good health. No significant difference was found in the amount of saccharin consumed by the two groups, and thus no link between the sweetener and cancer. A similar conclusion, published in Science, was reached in a six-city study of 367 bladder-cancer patients and as many healthy subjects carried out by Drs. Ernest Wynder and Steven...
...unwanted child of the New York Times Co., Us magazine, finally found a foster home last week. The Macfadden Group, publisher of True Confessions, Secrets and Cheri ("The All True Sex News Magazine"), acquired the fortnightly personality magazine after Tunes executives had spent months trying to peddle it-to CBS and the National Enquirer, among others. Macfadden will assume Us's existing subscription liabilities, estimated at about $4 million. It will also pay the Tunes Co. more than $5 million out of the magazine's future profits, if there are any; the Times Co. sank $10 million into...
...Times Co. launched Us in April 1977, hoping to follow PEOPLE magazine's fast rise to popularity and profits. Us guaranteed advertisers an initial circulation of 750,000, but had to fall back to 500,000 (it is now 900,000). William Davis, president of the Times Magazine Group, meddled incessantly with the editorial product, and other Times Co. executives cringed in embarrassment. Ironically, Us had two of its hottest selling issues ever (both topped 1.1 million) in the past two months, and seemed close to carving out an identity as a more youth-directed version of PEOPLE (circ...