Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kelvin is a cool customer. Back on Earth, we've already seen him alienate his anxious father with freezing scowls. When a worried former Solaris astronaut tries to warn him about his haunting visions, like hallucinations come to life, Kelvin mocks, scoffs and deries him out of the house. You cloud real science with your romanticism, he snaps. No such nonsense for Kelvin...
...Srinagar in Kashmir, there to spend five weeks aboard houseboats on polluted Dal Lake. Mike Kong of New York City is selling an unwrapped package for nudists titled "Vacations in the Buff" (in the Caribbean), which, according to his office, has been designed to attract "the more sophisticated traveler, anxious to try a new experience, something more casual." The variety is unending. New York City's American Museum of Natural History sponsors scientific tours of the Nile, the Black Sea and African game parks. Nature Enthusiast Hanns Ebensten leads a springtime voyage to the arctic ice floes to watch...
Little League Jokes. Professor Fine-whose current work involves analyzing the jokes of a Minnesota Little League team-is anxious to discover why people laugh. "When we learn that, we will be able to use humorous material as a tool." Fine believes most people laugh as much as 1,000 times a day. If so, the news should alarm California Psychiatrist William Fry, who several years ago developed a theory that laughing is physically harmful and can actually kill you. That might still be a better fate than sitting through an academic conference on humor...
...shortages seem farfetched at present. Consumers have not launched a spending spree so frenetic that it could lead to an overheated economy by the end of next year. Still, the possibility does exist, and until corporations begin to open their purses in earnest, spending plans will continue to attract anxious attention...
...already conquered gold fever. Says he: "When I was a kid I dreamed of becoming an Olympic champion in something, in anything. I mean literally dreamed. I could see that little piece of gold in my hand. Now I've got it. But Jenner, he's too anxious to grab that medal away from me." Says Jenner of Avilov's composure: "He was so relaxed before the final event at Munich that he freaked me out. I would have been in a straitjacket myself...