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Over a decade after he and several doctors at the Medical School and MIT began seeking a way to determine a woman's ovulation period, Melvin Shapiro predicts--and hopes--that their discovery, the "Ovu-Timer," will be on the mass market within a year...
While I am on the subject of Handy, let me once and for all pronounce disco music as a past tense art. Ever since Harold Melvin had a parting of the ways with the Blue Notes, and Gato Barbieri's "I Want You" took the nation by storm (count the cliches) disco's tide has been ebbing. So, what are we going to dance to? Just as the jazz musicians crossed over into rock, I've been wondering when they were going to move into the dance market. Don't be surprised if some young group leader decides to turn...
...children have responded with anger and disruptiveness. Says Assistant School Superintendent Elmer Frahm, 45: "We see many more students smoking, drinking, using drugs, and there's a lot more vandalism too." The Reserve Mining case has been hanging over Silver Bay for eight years. Says Mayor Melvin Koepke, a machinist at Reserve's $350 million lakeside plant: "It's like living in limbo." Understandably, most residents now postpone major home improvements. Savings deposits in the local bank have almost doubled in two years. Many residents are prepared to leave. Others are not, like Robert Carlson...
...trial was originally scheduled to begin December 17, but Melvin Ravech, Fredie's lawyer, asked the court to postpone the case until at least January 17 because Rarech was involved in another trial at that time...
...bishop's dithering wife is alive, well, residing in modern America and very dangerous, says Harvard Anthropologist Melvin J. Konner. In fact, he fears, she was very much in evidence at the annual American Anthropological Association meeting in Washington, where the subject of angry debate was the divisive new discipline of sociobiology and its chief spokesman Edward O. Wilson. The bishop's wife, says Konner, "did not like what Darwin said, what Marx and Engels said, what Freud said, and now she does not like what Wilson says: they all make her feel 'lower...