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...spokesman for Mass General yesterday confirmed that the 88-year-old Morison is hospitalized, but because of a request from Morison's family, refused to release any information about his condition...
...Supreme Court in a case growing out of the mass murder. Erwin Charles Simants, an unemployed farm hand and neighbor of the slain family, had been arrested for the killings within a day. When rumors began to spread that he had confessed, a local judge-at the request of both prosecution and defense attorneys-ordered the press not to print most of what was revealed at a public preliminary hearing. His reason: Simants' right to a trial untainted by prejudicial publicity superseded the freedom of the press. Although that broad ban was trimmed somewhat on appeal, a gag remained...
...Faculty Council yesterday turned down a Music Department request that the department be allowed to offer a course in performance in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) on a credit/non-credit basis...
When Administration health officials begin lining up Americans for their flu shots next fall, joked Democratic Senator Warren Magnuson of Washington, "they might have 'em vote at the same time." Magnuson's wisecrack, made during hearings on President Ford's emergency request for $135 million to inoculate all Americans against a possible outbreak of swine influenza (TIME, April 5), was tacit recognition of the emerging controversy surrounding the proposal. Despite final congressional approval and the signing of the measure into law last week, some legislators and doctors are wondering out loud whether the flu program is merely...
Ford's request had the backing of a blue-ribbon medical advisory committee-including Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin, of polio vaccine fame-but critics of the program charge that the Administration left unanswered some nagging questions. Among them...