Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five years with, at best spotty results. The fact is, the young and not so young lovers determined to marry are going to do so, come hell or high priest. Life's toughest act is to live permanently with another; the surprise is that so many marriages hold firm. This I do know: God will be more merciful to the divorced than Catholic...
...Alexander Haig Jr. seconded this. Said he: "The global balance of power is viewed in Europe as shifting against us, and we can no longer ignore it." During a break in the hearing, Haig disclosed that "as of today, I could not go along with SALT II." While expressing firm doubts about the pact, he indicated that he might accept it if its ratification would mark "the turnaround of a perceived period of drift in U.S. leadership" and a commitment for a larger strategic arms budget...
That shortage may soon be eased. In the most dramatic display yet of the controversial genetic engineering technique known as recombinant DNA, independent teams at the University of California in San Francisco and at a small commercial research firm, Genentech Inc., in nearby Palo Alto, used human pituitary tissue to construct the gene, or DNA segment, responsible for the production of somatotropin. They then implanted it in the genetic machinery of a laboratory strain of the common intestinal bacterium Escherichia coli. The gene splicing worked: the re-engineered bugs began to make...
...Riccardo Muti conductor, Angel). Now that Muti has been appointed to succeed Eugene Ormandy in 1980, listeners will turn to these, his first discs with the orchestra, to see what kind of new leader the Philadelphia has. They will find few conclusive answers. These are unexceptionable performances, clean and firm-if anything, too firm in the emphatic attack in the Beethoven and the clipped chords of the Mussorgsky and Stravinsky. What is missing, and it may be too early to expect it, is a distinctive Muti accent for the orchestra to "speak...
DIED. James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre, 93, Archbishop of Los Angeles from 1948 until his retirement in 1970; in Los Angeles. At 29, Mclntyre traded in his option on a partnership in a Wall Street firm for the seminary and the priesthood. Ordained in 1921, he put his financial expertise to good use for 25 years on behalf of the archdiocese of New York, seeing it soundly through the Depression and eventually becoming its auxiliary bishop. Appointed head of the Los Angeles see in 1948, he won acclaim and a Cardinal's red hat (in 1953), in part for building...