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Fortunately, only the astronauts felt frozen. On their last night in space, they donned two pairs of thermal underwear apiece to ward off the chill; Lovell even put on his bulky moonwalking shoes to keep his toes warm. Because they had slept only fitfully, Deke Slayton, NASA's director of flight-crew operations, suggested that each crew member take two Dexedrine pills to keep him alert for busy and fateful moments ahead. Said Lovell: "It's going to be an interesting...
...took it himself and suffered no harm. He gave it to a male patient, 51, who was "restless, dirty, destructive, who had been in a back ward for five years and bade fair to remain there the rest of his life." In three weeks the patient was better, and he soon went home and back to work. Lithium carbonate, Cade found, appeared to be of little or no value in the treatment of other psychotic states, notably schizophrenia, or in the depressive phase into which most manic patients usually subside...
...commanding stage presence, and Andrea Goodzeit provided both of these. Her voice had a pure yet vibrant timbre which eclipsed all of the other singers. She is a fine stage actress as well as a singer, and her demeanor was well suited to the role. similarly, Deborah Ward, as Yum-Yum, the child bride, had complete control of the character, although her voice was at times weak...
...half as much median family income ($4.800). Though Chicago has 80 hospitals, most blacks are sent to the old Cook County Hospital, where they wait an average two hours to be seen, pay $100 a day for beds or are crowded into the hospital's 50-year-old ward. In black ghettos, the infant mortality rate from influenza and pneumonia is 9.8 per 100,000, compared with 4.4 in white poverty areas and 2.6 for all whites...
...plays were produced by the Negro Ensemble Company, founded two years ago by Actor-Playwright Douglas Turner Ward, Actor Robert Hooks and Producer Gerald Krone. The company is the apex of a genuine black breakthrough that occurred off-Broadway during the 1960s. The small theaters, mostly below 14th Street in Manhattan, were the training or proving grounds not only for Moses Gunn but for James Earl Jones (The Great White Hope) and Diana Sands (The Owl and the Pussycat"), as well as for Gloria Foster, Clarence Williams III, Cicely Tyson, Barbara Ann Teer, Rosalind Cash, Lou Gossett, Vinie Burrows, Yaphet...