Word: downs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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On the basis of his first offering, The Constant Prince, he succeeds awesomely well. The play is a loose adaptation from the 17th century Spanish playwright Calderon. It is acted out in an area rather like a bull pit with the audience looking down over the walled-in enclosure on...
Hoffman eloquently described desegregation as "a very small down payment on an investment whose dividends are good citizenship, justice and the welfare of the nation." The judge proudly notes that his words were quoted "around the world-even in the English language newspaper in Jerusalem."
First there was sugar, squeezed from sugar cane and white beets. Dentists blame it for damaging the teeth; it makes people gain weight, and some cardiologists now suspect that its excess use may be a factor in heart-artery diseases. Then, 90 years ago, chemists hit upon saccharin, which is...
The trouble with cyclamates (besides the sodium compound, there is a calcium combination for patients on low-salt diets) is that they do not behave predictably in the human body-unlike sugar, which is completely and naturally metabolized. Cyclamates break down in the body, forming chemicals, notably cyclohexylamine (CHA). This...
"We Will Not Budge." The change comes at a particularly sensitive time, when everyone is wondering when prices will stop going up and interest rates will start coming down. The Administration has given top economic priority to fighting inflation by sharply restricting Government spending at the same time that the...