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...cells (top), which have about 150 finger-Like protrusions on their surfaces, produce the antibodies that lock onto invading cells and other foreign bodies, making them more susceptible to scavenger cells. Tcells, which have only a handful of protrusions on their otherwise smooth surfaces, proliferate, flock to the site of an infection and attack the invaders directly, destroying them chemically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Close Look at Lymphocytes | 10/22/1973 | See Source »

Little wonder why swarms or even dribbles of excited fans don't flock to the park to take in the action. In addition there is the brevity of a cross-country meet. It lasts only 15 thrill-packed minutes, without boring time outs or commercial breaks...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Gamesmanship | 10/5/1973 | See Source »

When the late-night munchies strike, Harvard students usually flock to the fast-food places around the Square. Besides Elsie's, Tommy's and others of that genre, a variety of pizza and sub shops cash in on the nocturnal hunger pangs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Glutton's Guide to Harvard Square | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

...groups. The apparent reason: I'm OK reveals Harris-a practicing Presbyterian - as a cross between Norman Vincent Peale and Billy Graham. A cheerful mass evangelist, he preaches a gospel of original sin and carries, as he himself puts it, a "message of hope" to an ever increasing flock of converts. "We simply cannot argue with the endemic 'cussedness' of man," he says, in a characteristic mixture of everyday and evangelical language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: T.A.: Doing OK | 8/20/1973 | See Source »

WOOL: A long period of low prices and drought cut the sheep flock in Australia, the major supplier, from 180 million in 1970 to 142 million last March. Since 1970-71, prices have soared from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHORTAGES: The Worldwide Squeeze | 8/20/1973 | See Source »

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