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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a nutrient broth. Within weeks, there appeared a strange microorganism, umbrella-shaped, with radiating spokes and a stalk terminating in a bulb. Though unfamiliar with anything like it, Siegel noted that the organism flourished amid conditions resembling the ammonia-laden atmosphere that probably prevailed on earth when the earliest forms of life were developing, some 3 billion years...
Died. Howard Black, retired executive vice president of Time Inc., who signed on in 1924 as one of TIME'S earliest advertising salesmen, from 1937 to 1941 presided over the fantastic growth of infant LIFE'S ad lineage revenues, then as longtime (1949-62) executive vice president was involved with all Time Inc. publishing operations, most notably the birth of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED in 1953; after a long illness; in Greenwich, Conn...
...tale was given its first great artistic shaping by Sophocles, whose dramatization remains the best known. Although his Antigone concludes the story presented in Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colouns, it was written before the other two; it is, in fact, the next-to-earliest of his surviving works. Early or not, it is a supreme master-piece, fully deserving of the first prize that it copped; and it contains a higher proportion of lyric writing than any of his other works...
...peace groups--including the Cambridge Neighborhood Committee, Mass Pax, the Mobilization Committee, and the Boston Draft Resistance Group -- have alerted their members to listen to the radio for the earliest announcement of the President's plans...
...placed on special diets. At the same time, an equal number of men with similar characteristics would serve as "controls" by continuing to eat as they please. Even if the Heart Institute acted immediately on the recommendation, however, no decisive results could be expected until 1975 at the earliest...