Word: containable
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Hopelessly Poor. Trying his best to contain the Huk threat, Marcos has launched in central Luzon a civic-action program that has built 178 new schools, dug dozens of wells and irrigation ditches and paved dirt roads. But the area is so hopelessly poor that his efforts have made little impact. The President's fear is that the Huk movement will spread to other impoverished areas before he can stamp it out in Luzon. "The battle can start any time," says Marcos. "If I must end my political career going after the Communists, I wouldn't mind...
MOZART: THE SIX QUINTETS FOR STRING QUARTET AND VIOLA (3 LPs; Columbia). In his later years, Mozart liked to play the viola; so he added a darker color to the string quartet by doubling the viola's voice. The five late quintets contain, besides the expected felicitous melodies, melting modulations and sprightly symmetries, some rich polyphony and dramatic interchanges. Walter Trampler brings his viola to the Budapest String Quartet, which is constantly updating its repertory to take advantage of improved recording techniques. This is their third recording of the quintets; they can stop...
...union from the Lewisburg penitentiary-where he made the uncharacteristically delicate gesture of using his raincoat to hide the handcuffs on his wrists. Like any other prisoner, he will be allowed only seven letters a week-all of which will be read by the warden and returned if they contain business matters-and three hours monthly for visits by his family or attorneys working on his appeal...
...related species. They must be iced as soon as caught, like all other fish for human consumption. In processing, though the whole fish is used, some bone is removed to keep the fluoride content below 100 parts per-million. The final flour of "FPC" parts (fish protein concentrate) must contain 75% protein and practically...
...spectacular. Published this week by McGraw-Hill* and edited by scholars at the Catholic University of America, the New Catholic Encyclopedia was seven years in preparation, took $4,000,000 to produce. It will cost $550 to acquire the set - and may well be worth it. The 15 volumes contain 15,350 pages, 7,500 illustrations, 15 million words, 17,000 articles ranging from "A Cappella" to "Zwinglianism...