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...most popular courses are those that satisfy pre-med requirements, with Chemistry S-20, "Organic Chemistry," leading the pack with about 200 cut-throat competitors, many of them Harvard undergraduates who want to get it over within eight weeks. The male-female ratio is about one to one, as opposed to the College's 2.5 to 1--"another way we're ahead of the academic year," Crooks says...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: The Summer School: Harvard's Fling With Populism | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

...team of Michigan State University researchers states in the A.M.A.'s Archives of Otolaryngology (a journal for ear, nose and throat specialists) that it observed an acupuncturist with 15 years of experience administer eight treatments to a deaf World War II veteran. Testing the man's hearing before, during and after the treatments, the researchers could discern no measurable improvement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, May 13, 1974 | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

Farewell, Deep Throat? So long, Miss Jones'? Could it be that the lust affair is over? Within the past year, two hard-core flicks (Deep Throat and The Devil in Miss Jones) were among the nation's top-grossing films and porno stars like Linda Lovelace (Throat) and Marilyn Chambers (Behind the Green Door) became nationally-known figures. Today, hard-core movie houses are half empty. "Business is only 60% of what it was last year," says Porno Producer David Friedman, president of the Adult Film Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Lust's Labor Lost | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

There are approximately 730 hardcore theaters in the U.S., and about 1 million regular patrons. To make big money, porno films must lure larger audiences. But, says Friedman, "the millions who saw Deep Throat and Green Door have now seen a dirty picture. They belong to the one-time-only club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Lust's Labor Lost | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

Attempts to retreat into softcore, like Deep Throat II, in which the explicit scenes are all off-camera, have failed. Nor have "religious" novelties like Not Just Another Woman, in which Porno Circuit Star Tina Russell plays a nun, or Him, about a homosexual with graphic Christ fantasies, provoked any big box office response. The thrill, it seems, is gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Lust's Labor Lost | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

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