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...society provides as varied an opportunity for richly individual life-styles and attitudes as any the world has known. Here are nine portraits of contemporary U.S. women and their views on why they live and work and love as they do. They do not, of course, begin to exhaust the possibilities, but they do indicate the range at a time of questioning of familiar roles and traditional assumptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A GALLERY OF AMERICAN WOMEN | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

...sinks and shelves common in a kitchen were immediately useful to the potters. A large bread dough mixer pronounced dead by the Food Services received a new set of gears and has mixed over 30,000 pounds of clay in its new career. The large gas service and exhaust system is being converted to fire the gas kiln presently under construction...

Author: By Margaret S. Mc kenna, | Title: Tortured Turns of a Potter's Wheel | 3/4/1972 | See Source »

...work my first Sunday, the only free day of the week, on a rescue dig. Bulldozers excavating for the foundations of a modern office building had unearthed important remains of the southern gate into the town, and a mercy period of several weeks was granted for an excavation to exhaust the site before modern construction destroyed it forever. Under the pressure of a deadline, some ten diggers worked at a fast pace in the cold and rain all day. I barely knew what I was doing, but by the week's end, I could "read" a plot of soil...

Author: By Gwen Kinkead, | Title: Summer Archeologists: Queues and Callouses | 2/25/1972 | See Source »

...nation's most densely populated state, New Jersey feels the impact of environmental problems more acutely than other states. Having cracked down on water polluters and acted to control auto-exhaust emissions, the state last week attacked noise pollution. Under a remarkable new law New Jersey authorized its aggressive department of environmental protection to draw up the U.S.'s first comprehensive statewide code to regulate all kinds of unwanted sounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Toward a Quieter State | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

Since I always will be able to write another column but never be able to make any more predictions, let me exhaust the soothsayer in me by pointing out what will happen to next year's football team...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: A Touch of Garlic | 11/20/1971 | See Source »

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