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...report, edited by four professors, three of whom now teach at Harvard, applies the cost-analysis to many of the more marginal operations, such as hysterectomies, and other operations that seldom involve the saving of lives...

Author: By Anne E. Bartlett, | Title: Med Professors Say Many Surgeons Perform Some Unjustified Operations | 5/25/1977 | See Source »

...White House. Well aware of an old Washington rule-power is bred by proximity to power-he secured an office in the West Wing between Jordan's and that of National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Thus positioned at the crossroads of foreign and domestic policy, he seldom visits his official quarters across the street from the White House in the Executive Office Building, which he has dubbed "Baltimore" because of its remoteness from real authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE PRESIDENCY: A Have-Clout, Will-Travel Veep | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

Other residents of Spring Mill Estates, an affluent Indianapolis suburb, knew Marguarite Jackson as "the demon lady." Though known to be rich, the plump, white-haired widow, 66, lived modestly, seldom venturing beyond the chain-link fence that guarded her weed-choked, three-acre property. Delivery men were instructed to stop on the street, honk, then pass their parcels to her over the fence. Lights blazed in the beige stone house day and night. When Mrs. Jackson did appear, her talk was a litany of paranoia. She cussed out other residents for complaining about her trash on the roadside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECCENTRICS: Terror in Spring Mill | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

Enter hero number two. Bobby Jenkins, a seldom-used freshman outfielder, pinch hit with two outs and stroked a single to right to load the bases again, this time for Singleton. "The General," four for four in the first game, promptly lashed a two-run single up the box to tie the game at four...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Batsmen Split Yale Twinbill | 5/13/1977 | See Source »

...Gentlemen of Verona has seldom figured prominently or popularly in the Shakespearean repertory. With the exception of the rube Launce, its characters aren't particularly distinctive, and a false resolution awkwardly forestalls a more probable and good-humored one. But the play's unevenness worked in favor of this musical adaptation. The writers deleted and redistributed Shakespeare's lines, sharing the eloquence more equably and getting things done with less dalliance. Guare heightened the farce and added intrigue to personalities by setting each character to a modern musical rhythm with lyrics to match, in idioms such as Motown, salsa...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Cuanto Me Gusta | 5/11/1977 | See Source »

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