Word: aprils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your article "Can the U.S. Defend Itself?" [April 3] may pull a few ostrich heads out of the sand...
...think of a more delightful way to usher in spring than with your story on John Travolta [April 3]. He is an electrifying, sumptuous boyman, who exudes a magical aura on-screen that could cause volcanic eruptions. In our part of the world, he has caused disco-dance-contest crazes, polyester-chrome-hair crazes, neon Saturday Night Fever T shirts...
Penn (6-3 in Eastern League, third place) got off to a roaring start, but began to fade when its top starter, John Leonard, came down with mononucleosis in early April. Leonard is healthy now, and will probably start the second game of the doubleheader...
Somehow, J. Wyatt Emmerich managed to do it all ("Darwin Vulgarized," 13 April...
...would have expected Emmerich, along with others who spout phrases coined by Science for the People (e.g., "vulgar Darwinism"), to be disturbed by DeVore's lecture, for it incidentally contradicted many of the things he claimed in his review of Dawkins's book on sociobiology last year (11 April 1977). That review led to a cascade of criticism, most of which asserted that he didn't know what he was talking about (26 April). Emmerich seems determined to prove his critics correct, and to force sociobiology into the "deeply conservative politics" mold whether it fits...