Word: berge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Malibu's middle-aged gentry may be excused for labeling this young Englishman an eccentric. Lifetime subscribers to Sunset magazine cannot conceive of anyone placing a tangerine pool table around the corner from a mirrored King Henry VIII fourposter. Bergère ottomans never should be buffeted by the whizap of a Death-Race Videogame. But when one has money, things bizarre are described, politely, as eclectic. Says Moon: "It's just a quiet place to escape the madness, a little English manor house with modern conveniences...
...were a man I wouldn't have half a dozen Tom Collinses before going out to play, then letting profanity substitute for proficiency on the golf course," said the great woman professional Patty Berg...
...course, the male ego is still not completely reconciled to the upsurge of par pummeling women golfers. Leslie Greis may never become another Patty Berg, but nevertheless she is helping to change the old attitude expressed by Chi Chi Rodriguez: "I'm playing like Tarzan--and scoring like Jane...
...calculated shock treatment worked. Toiling through the night, Berg and his committee drafted recommendations that the conferees readily accepted before their departure the next day. They voted not only to continue the ban on the worrisome experiments, but also to press NIH to establish levels of safety that should be required for different experiments. In addition, they decided that precautions to keep research organisms from escaping from laboratories had to include "biological containment." This required the creation of mutated strains of E. coli so disabled that they could live nowhere but in a test tube. If they did escape their...
...production of Lulu has a special problem. Berg had not finished the orchestration of the third and last act when he died in 1935. In the years thereafter and in her will (she died last August), Berg's widow steadfastly refused to allow publication of his sketches for the act. Yet one who has seen them, American Composer George Perle, says that they are complete enough to make orchestration a relatively easy matter...