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...working life of an agent depends largely on where he is stationed. If he is lucky enough to be assigned to a big-city office, his hours are apt to be as regular as a stockbroker's. But assignment to a small city can mean excessive travel, irregular hours and unplanned schedule changes. The ideal assignment is in a middle-sized city like Madison, Wis., or Boulder, Colo., where as agents say, "You can pretty much be your own boss...
ROBERT GOOD'S metaphor may be mixed, but it is apt. As a swimmer in an ocean of organisms, man must have a means of identifying and resisting the ones that can harm or kill him. The major mechanism that does this, and enables man to survive, is the immune system, designed by nature to quickly recognize, attack and destroy any foreign matter that enters the body. The system is complex and depends for its function on a wide variety of highly specialized substances. Its main agents are cells called lymphocytes, which are produced by the so-called "stem...
Francis A. Allen, former dean of the University of Michigan Law School, said that in the fifties and early sixties writing on criminal law concentrated on the individual offender and on how his behavior could be changed. Contemporary writing is more apt to question the law that was violated, he said...
...what I hear in my head. What comes out is mellow and soft; yet what I try to achieve is an 'edge' to my voice." To her avid public in Britain, Europe and Australia (which includes Britain's Princess Margaret), a more apt description can be found on the working title of Cleo's newest album, which she was recording last week: I Am a Song...
...stately vigor. Here, the elder Magnani takes a partner and leads her proudly and gracefully round the dance pavilion, demonstrating his contempt for the astonished Blackshirts standing on the sidelines. It is a lovely, graceful scene, and suggests another title for the film, First Polka in Tara. Not as apt, perhaps, but probably more commercial. - Jay Cocks