Word: fills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lost Message. In addition to its other contributions, Children's Theater is attempting to fill a sub-generation gap. "There are programs for the very young children and programs for the teenagers, but nothing in between," explains June Reig, the Theater's writerdirector. "We are aiming particularly at the seven-to-ten crowd." The message has apparently been lost on older viewers. Recent surveys show that as much as 62% of the Theater's audience is adult...
...embittered horseplayer recently remarked, "If they raced rats and placed Tote machines in Madison Square Garden, they could fill the joint with suckers every night." He was getting at a basic truth about the fascination of gambling. But what clearly eluded him-and what Sam Toperoff conveys with love in this oddly winning novelistic memoir-is the peculiar delight, the exquisite angst that horses (and wagering on them) give a really dedicated race-goer...
...also likely to fill France's empty chair at the Geneva disarmament talks, which could result in eventual signing of the nuclear test-ban and nonproliferation treaties...
More impoitant, Myrberg's studies of the linguistics of fish may help to fill the world's food needs. Once sharks and other predators that normally swim singly or in small groups can be concentrated into selected areas, it may become profitable for commercial fishermen to "harvest" them, thereby tapping a rich new source of protein. Similar tactics might be used to satisfy less adventuresome tastes in seafood. "If we can make this little damselfish twist and turn around in the open sea," says Myrberg, "maybe some day we can make a snapper jump into...
...lower levels of Lamont. The Harvard Library Committee is now in the process of trying to raise $5 million for the underground library expansion in the area between Widener, Houghton, Lamont, and President Pusey's house. Two of the projected four floors will go to Houghton and, with luck, fill its space needs on into...