Word: methodism
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...abortion. We do not feel it is wrong to say that 40,000 abortions in one year in the state of Massachusetts is too many. We do not feel that it is altogether obvious to all the women having abortions that abortion is emphatically not a method of birth control. Something has to be done, and if the state legislature has been less than dexterous in doing it, it is not the first time...
DIED. Willard Frank Libby, 71, nuclear pioneer whose "atomic clock" for dating ancient objects won him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960; of a blood clot in the lung; in Los Angeles. A participant in the World War II Manhattan Project, Libby helped develop the gaseous-diffusion method of separating uranium isotopes. In the mid-'40s, he discovered that a radioactive isotope of carbon was a tiny but measurable part of all living matter and, decaying at a predictable rate, could be used to assign an age to dead organic archaeological and geological remains. An advocate of nuclear...
...York City. After starting out as an actor, he founded the Group Theater in 1931 to serve as an alternative to Broadway's commercial offerings; for ten years it provided a forum for playwrights like Clifford Odets and William Saroyan, introduced to the American stage the Stanislavsky Method of acting, and nourished such actors as Lee Strasberg, John Garfield, Cheryl Crawford, Lee J. Cobb and Stella Adler (Clurman's first wife). As a drama critic since the late 1940s, mostly for the Nation, he drew on enormous theatrical erudition, a prodigious memory and an insatiable delight...
...that the term may prove a misnomer. With the shift in the nation away from the northern cities to suburbia, the west and even to the south, the goals of the reformers will change. And with an electorate that lives and votes by what it sees on television, the method too will vary. Broder talks frequently about change and leaves it at that; he does not pretend to know what kind of change. That's too bad, but at least it's honest...
Under the direction of Biochemist Robert Bandurski, M.S.U. botanists will try to germinate the remaining 1980 seeds One method they will use is vernalization, in which the transition from winter to spring is re-created by refrigerating the seeds briefly before exposing them again to warmth and light. The seedlings will be nurtured until they produce seeds of their own, in the hope that the progeny will offer clues about the mutating effects of 100 years' exposure to the natural radiation in the soil. Enough bottles remain buried to carry on Beal's experiment until 2040. More time...