Word: gottliebs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next, changes under the surface of life's routines are actually occurring at almost unimaginable speed. Just 100 years ago, parts of New York City were lighted for the first time by a strange new force called electricity; just 100 years ago, the German Engineer Gottlieb Daimler began building a gasoline-fueled internal combustion engine (three more years passed before he fitted it to a bicycle). So it is with the computer...
...Portland, Ore., in Minneapolis, in Palm Beach County, Fla.-but they all enjoy sturdy funding from local government. Many of the more embattled programs are trying new techniques to hold the line. The Atlanta Legal Aid Society has new 45-min. instructional videotapes for its clients. Explains Director Steven Gottlieb: "We show them how to handle dispossession, how to negotiate with landlords, how to do things for themselves in court if they have to." Leaders of the Florida bar are trying to make it mandatory for members to give 25 hours of service a year or $500 in donations...
DIED. Samuel M. Kootz, 83, foresighted art dealer and paladin of abstract expressionism in America; in New York City. Kootz helped to define the emerging school by showing such artists as Robert Motherwell, Hans Hofmann, Carl Holty, Fritz Glarner and Adolph Gottlieb. As a critic and author, Kootz griped about American artists who poured "their ideas into the same corny molds." By contrast, he wrote of the abstract expressionists' works: "Dramatically personal, each painting contains part of the artist's self, this revelation of himself in paint being a conscious revolt from our Puritan heritage...
...syndrome is cytomegalovirus, which is known to weaken immune defenses and can be transmitted in semen more than a year after infection. In a recent study, traces of CMV were found in 94% of homosexual men, as opposed to 54% of heterosexual men. U.C.L.A.'s Dr. Michael Gottlieb believes that CMV does contribute to the immune deficiency, but, he points out, both the virus and homosexuality "have been around for thousands of years." Thus, he concludes, "there is a piece of the puzzle missing...
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