Word: gisela
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, experimenters have also shown that certain mouth and vaginal odors change regularly during the menstrual cycle. That raises the possibility that odor tests may one day help develop a new contraceptive, an idea supported by the monkey studies of Monell Primatologist Gisela Epple. She found that the dominant male and dominant female in each social group spend much of their time smearing their scent around the cages. Surprisingly, subdominant females do not get pregnant when they mate with the top male. Epple suspects that a scent signal from the dominant female suppresses the fertility...
...Pittston, Pa., a community of 60,000 that slipped into decline when its coal mines gave out, West Germany's Schott Optical Glass company opened a manufacturing plant in 1969 with 60 employees. It now has 600. Reports TIME Correspondent Gisela Bolte: "City fathers have hired a consultant in Switzerland to recruit other foreign companies. A Swiss firm that has developed a friction reducing process for machinery will soon open in Pittston. To make the community even more attractive, the local airport runway will soon be extended to accommodate jumbo jets. In addition, a 42-acre industrial park...
Reporters are often caught up at first in the language or locutions of their new country. German-born Gisela Bolte, assigned to the New York bureau after working in Bonn, has discovered that "a word like hokey, which wasn't in use when I was here from 1968 to 1970, is popular now and others, such as dropout, are no longer common usage." Senior Correspondent James Bell, who joined TIME in 1942 and has served in 14 different bureaus, is also busy getting used to a linguistic shift although he has only moved from Atlanta to Boston. "Retuning...
Eliot House Music Society--A performance of Rossini's Petite Messe Solonnelle. With Patricia DiRe, soprano; Maria di Stefano, mezzo-soprano; J. Scott Brumit, bass; J. Stephan Reed, tenor; Gisela Krause, piano; and Wayne Schneider, harmonium...
Moreover, it is questionable whether Sweden's techniques can be exported. Reports TIME Bonn Correspondent Gisela Bolte: "For the Swedish system to work requires Swedish conditions. It is a small country on the periphery of Europe (it has not been involved in a war for 160 years) with a homogeneous population. Not only do Swedes trust one another, they also trust their government. Labor and business cooperate so smoothly that strikes are virtually unknown, and the unions have not resisted structural changes in the economy. Key decisions are made in personal contacts among a small number of government, labor...