Word: ments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where have the homeless gone? Two places mainly: 1) into Algerian cities to swell urban slums, or 2) into "regroup-ment centers" under French army supervision. In either place they make a mockery-or else a very distant promise-of De Gaulle's historic Constantine pledge last November to Algerian Moslems of eventual parity with French standards of living...
...degree in engineering. After several years at other companies, he arrived at Pontiac, as a menial "tool chaser." He tried everything, just so it added another bit of experience: defense plant chief inspector, car-assem bly superintendent, assistant master mechanic, boss of a new "process develop-ment" section searching to make prod- ucts more efficiently. Says Knudsen: "As long as you're interested enough to take any job that comes along, you'll find something worthwhile to do, and it usually turns out to be a better job than the last one." By the time...
...grin, and "I'm giving away a Soviet government secret, but I'll tell you anyway that we accept." Of course, he added with a patient shrug, Russia would rather have a summit meeting first: "It would be better if the heavyweights-the chiefs of govern ment-undertook to clear away the enormous debris that has accumulated in international affairs. Let them shift the boulders out of the way and start removing the rubble . . . But if such a proposal finds no support from our partners, we are prepared to start with a meeting of foreign ministers and then...
Today the battle for bookings is usually fought on other fronts, but self-advertise ment in Variety and other trade papers survives, a kind of tribal custom to which just about everybody in the business succumbs at least once a year. And it still fills a real need: without it the trade papers might go broke...
What causes the slowdown in replace ment? Gerontologists cannot be sure, but their highest-powered laboratory tech niques are now concentrated on enzymes, those little-understood "organic catalysts" that regulate all the functions of metabo lism-both breakdown (catabolism) and buildup (anabolism). With age, a digestive change definitely involving an enzyme occurs in the salivary glands : they secrete less ptyalin, an enzyme that converts starch into sugars. Researchers believe that there may be many such changes...