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Died. Claire McGill Luce, 47, former publishing executive, and since 1960 wife of TIME Publisher Henry Luce III; of cancer; on Fishers Island, N.Y. At the age of twelve, Mrs. Luce was already hard at work as a cook and cowgirl on her grandfather's Oregon cattle ranch. After joining Time Inc. in 1943, she soon assumed responsibility for managing the company's stock portfolio and various holdings. She left the company in 1948 to join a special U.S. aid mission to China, where she was twice the target of snipers, and returned to Time Inc. eight years...
LOVE NEEDS CARE by David E. Smith, M.D. and John Luce. 405 pages. Little, Brown...
Precisely because he did care, Dr. Smith's book, which was written with Journalist John Luce, makes a compelling document. Though the tragedy of drug escalation has often been described, its lessons bear repetition. The children Smith describes took drugs for a number of inner compulsions, which in themselves, as he points out, needed expert care. But they also gravitated toward disaster out of stupidity, conformity, inertia, the need to run drug risks as a challenge to adults, and the dream that drugs are a short cut to truth and beauty. In their hopes and delusions, they resemble nothing...
Last summer the company staged several voltage-cutting "brownouts." Girding for another nervous summer, Con Ed Chairman Charles F. Luce last week rejected the notion that troubled companies need more business. Luce has dropped all Con Ed sales promotion, which had boosted the percentage of new electrically heated housing units in the New York area from 5% to 30%. Con Ed will continue to spend about $1,000,000 a year for advertising-but it will use some of that money to urge New Yorkers to use as little electricity as possible...
...committee, which includes such prominent Americans as Dr. Edward Teller, inventor of the hydrogen bomb, and Clare Boothe Luce, widow of the publishing magnate, is convinced that Cuba was a launching pad for the student insurrections and black rebellions which plagued the U. S. during...