Word: developable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team came back in "mediocre shape," Field said. "Some were in good shape and some weren't," Field said. She added that the players will be doing stadiums and weight training to develop their upper body and legs...
Each film comes with two filmstrips keyed to records or cassette recordings, and a magazine called Bible Times. To develop these teaching materials, the Genesis Project has assembled 120 Bible scholars and historians at various seminars. Thus viewers will see Abraham on his way from Ur to the Promised Land, then watch a filmstrip as scholars explain that Ur was probably the earliest civilization and the place where writing was invented...
Surprisingly, some of the rare conciliatory remarks at the conference were made by Viet Nam's Pham Van Dong -and directed toward the U.S. Dong said that his country wanted to develop normal diplomatic relations with Washington, as well as economic ties with the capitalist West. Said he to TIME'S David Aikman: "At present we see no sign of change in the situation [with the U.S.], but I think there will be an improvement in the future...
Died. Dr. Willard Cole Rappleye, 84, dean of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons (1931-51), who helped the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center to develop into one of the nation's great hospitals; in Manhattan. Rappleye got his M.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Medical School in 1918, worked in various hospitals in California and the Northeast, and taught hospital administration. Named dean of the medical faculty at Columbia at 39, he was a forward-looking educator who adapted the medical curriculum to keep pace with medical progress. In 1961, concerned with the disintegration of services...
Harelips and cleft palates, in one form or another, afflict one in about every 750 newborn children, or 5,000 a year in the U.S. alone. That they develop early in fetal life is clear, but beyond that no one knows the exact cause. It may be a genetic defect, the result of maternal malnutrition or infection, drugs, or a combination of these. Whatever the cause, as fetal tissues grow and form the lips, mouth and palate, something inhibits normal development. The result is a twisted, often grotesque distortion of the nose and a gaping cleft in the upper...