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Limp with exhaustion when he finally withdrew backstage, Janis was congratulated by Prokofiev's widow. Said Tchaikovsky Prizewinner Vladimir Ashkenazy: "I have never heard Prokofiev played so brilliantly." As for the fans waiting for autographs at the stage door, they seemed to be struck by Janis' remarkable resemblance to the young Chopin, and by the fact, as one of them put it, that "one can tell by his face that he suffers while he plays...
...Boston group, the World Affairs Council, withdrew from its position as co-sponsor and sent out letters of protest to the participating schools. According to Richard A. Durban '63, president of the Harvard Council, two schools then sent in notices cancelling their participation, but after further communications with Durban's group, agreed to continue to participate...
...WHDH action probably makes it the first local outlet to refuse the show. Earlier CBS reported that no station had cancelled it although two or three had indicated reservations about carrying it. The usual three sponsors of the show withdrew their support last week but another company has agreed to carry the production...
...Francisco, the nation's "blue jean king," President Walter Haas of Levi Strauss & Co., had planned to raise his own prices by 3%-though he had condemned the steel price rise as "unconscionable." In one of the week's most notable non sequiturs, Haas quickly withdrew his raises because "although our business has absolutely no relation to steel, we feel that the impact of any increase would be bad at this time...
...must go through a complex, time-consuming procedure to get it off the market. Usually, in such cases, the drugmakers cooperate more or less voluntarily, since they have as much stake as anyone in weighing a drug's side effects against its advantages. Last week the Upjohn Co. withdrew Monase. a "psychic energizer,"after reporting to FDA that widespread use since June 1961 had produced seven cases of aplastic anemia, four of them fatal-though the drug was tested in 3,500 patients, with no sign of damage to their blood-cell mechanisms, before it was marketed...