Word: containable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Green has long believed that most of the major lunar features are volcanic in origin. Since volcanic formations on earth contain hydrous rocks, Green reasons, they may well exist on the moon. Merely heating such rocks to between 500°F. and 800°F., he says, will release as much as a gallon of water per cubic foot of rock...
...Starting in February, however, New York will get a new Sunday paper, the Knickerbocker News. Put out by the publishers of Funk & Wagnall's Dictionary, it will contain many of the columnists, comics and features that used to appear in the World Journal Tribune but now have no New York outlet, although they are carried by out-of-town papers...
Those circles, though, do not seem big enough to contain Podhoretz' ferocious and expanding ambition. Making It is his official declaration of independence. It is his self-proclaimed bid for "literary distinction, fame, and money all in one package...
...plans his film as a totality, understanding instinctively how each shot relates to the film as a whole; a competent director of narrative films like Michael Curtiz (Casablanca) plans shots with relation to the entire scene. Nichols, however, cannot plan past a given shot, and although a frame may contain an effective gimmick, camera angle, or background detail, the scenes themselves are purposeless and disconnected, largely due to awkward and self-conscious editing...
...viruses have the exasperating capability to "drift" each year, changing characteristics to varying degrees and accreting new "armor" against existing vaccines. So far, the virus "drift" does not appear significant. "Present influenza vaccines," says the Communicable Disease Center's Dr. Stephen Schoenbaum, "should afford adequate protection since they contain A-2 strains similar to the ones we have isolated...