Word: cautionings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Extra Caution. What that deadly substance was, no one knows. NASA scientists point out that many plants, such as ferns and liverworts, have actually grown better in lunar soil than in terrestrial soil. One possible explanation has been offered by microbiologists at Ames Research Center in California. They suggest that the low concentrations of chromium and other trace metals in moon soil may be nutritious for some plants but deadly for the bacteria...
...Kemmerer, chief of preventive medicine at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory, feels that the unknown killer in the moon soil holds no threat to human life or any usefulness as a vaccine against bacteria. But the surprising demise of the bacteria may well have contributed to the extra degree of caution displayed by NASA in planning next month's moon mission, which will take man for the first time into the more rugged and ancient lunar highlands. Although the space agency had been contemplating abolishing the postflight isolation period for Apollo crews, it has now accepted the recommendation...
...Still, he is doing just that for some coats and skirts, although he is keeping his dresses short and snappy. Bill Blass is turning out a half-hearted 50%-midi collection; Oscar de La Renta promises to go to "all lengths for spring and summer," but is flinging caution-and leftover minis-aside for a fall collection destined to be 100% pure midi. That will leave him two seasons behind James Galanos, whose current collection shows not so much as a smidgen of knee. Says he for the midi: "It was unavoidable. The time was right, and women are ready...
...brighten the urban picture, he uses Bernard J. Frieden's data about the decline in the percentage of Negro families occupying substandard housing. But Banfield chooses not to mention Frieden's caution that, because of the increase in the black population, the number of nonwhite families in inadequate housing has increased...
...things are going," remarked a newsman in Manhattan, "reporters will soon have to preface an interview with the caution, 'You have the right to remain silent and to have a lawyer present. Anything you say may be taken down and used in evidence against...