Word: feds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...composing rooms are humming and clicking to the tune of modern electronics. No longer must a printer justify lines by hand -expanding or contracting them to fit the width of a column. Nor need he worry about hyphenating words. Instead, a typist punches out a tape that is then fed into a computer. Out comes another tape, this one justified and hyphenated, ready to be fed into an automatic high-speed typesetter...
...have met a long-felt need. In its first three days on the shelves, 5,100 of the clocks were sold across the country. The Lady is, of course, subject to the dangers of error inherent in the rhythm method. And it relies on the dependability of the information fed into it. Physicians warn potential buyers that they who are not sure of their shortest and longest menstrual cycles should keep careful records for at least a year before going by the clock...
...through what a Brescia critic once described as "the rustic and cantankerous dialect of his own district." The results were often warm and whimsical. Windows and archways open onto rocky landscapes typical of the region. His Saviour is not the emaciated, sublimely anguished figure of his colleagues, but pasta-fed and plump, his saints more spirited than spiritual. His chubby cherubs often pout like naughty children; in St. Anthony of Padua they hold up a garland from a lemon tree which then, as now, grew on the shores of nearby Lake Garda...
...from the perspective of the sixties, the whole period has an air of unreality; to students eager to advance civil rights through social action, the legalistic defense of established civil liberties seems a limited and rather foreign battle. They view the Wisconsin Senator and the climate he fomented and fed on as an-aberration which could not have lasted. And, in day of sit-ins, summer projects, and full page ads criticizing U.S. foreign policy placed in the Times by hundreds of academics, they would have trouble understanding the years in the early fifties. Then tenured professors thought long...
Biological Weapon. The parasites have been found only in association with ants Apparently, they cannot live except when fed by the fire ants with their regurgitations. This dependence makes them promising as a potent biological weapon. But the department's scientists will not bring the parasites to the U.S. and turn them loose until it is certain that they will not upset the balance of nature in some unexpected and possibly harmful...