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...woman I love" for whom Edward VIII renounced the British throne was not the only one. A forthcoming biography of the late Duke of Windsor, by his friend Frances Donaldson, tells the story of his long friendship with Mrs. Dudley Ward, wife of a Liberal Party whip in the House of Commons. They met in 1917, during an air raid, when Freda Ward took refuge in the cellar of a house where a noisy party was going on. She chatted in the gloom with an unknown guest in his early 20s, and after the all-clear, the hostess pressed...
...guilty of treating our elderly shamelessly. A young girl reported at a nursing home for work. She asked the nurse at the desk to which ward she was assigned for the day. The nurse pointed to what she called the "vegetable...
Economist Barbara Ward on the trend of speeches: "Truth is moving to platitude with alarming speed...
Some groups, including Orthodox Jews, still oppose both post-mortem examinations and dissection, but most Reform and Conservative Jews favor the idea, as do many Roman Catholics. "Our only consideration is that a body be buried after use," says Bishop John Ward of Los Angeles. "Whether or not a person donates his organs or, indeed, his entire body to science is, of course, a very personal matter in which we would not want to interfere." Nor do undertakers object to the trend. Many are retained by medical schools to store or transport bodies, and have enough traditional patrons to keep...
...amphetamines to s]eep-at the abandoned airport of Skarpnack, just south of the city. Chief Rolling Thunder, an honorary Shoshoni medicine man, chanted invocations while 50 members of the Hog Farm, a peregrinating U.S. commune, threw tobacco into a camp fire, a ritual that is supposed to ward off violence...