Word: micro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's assumption that the University is a micro-city located within a larger city is a false premise of planning, Campbell said, because it treats Harvard as a self-contained enclave...
...Town, "an authentic replica of the cattle capital as it was during its roaring hey-days..." As part of this enterprise, a stage coach filled with paying tourists plies up and down the dirt road along the back of the Library building. Just behind the wax museum is a Micro Zoo ("100's of Microscopic Animals and Plants. Projected Alive...A Living Educational Exhibit"). Not surprisingly, there are several fast food stores. And two private campgrounds ("Feel free to inspect our restrooms"). In the campground I looked over, 33 Winnebago-type mobile homes were registered...
...medicine is more than casual. Even when the floodwaters had receded, hundreds of frescoed walls in Florence remained so damp that the paintings were threatened by a bacterial onslaught of molds and fungi. "If we had not found a solution," says Baldini, "those frescoes would have been devoured by micro-organisms." He and his colleagues ran through dozens of mold-killing antibiotics to test their effect on paint. Finally one was left: Squibb's Nystatin, a stomach medicine, which did not harm the pigments. But it came in the form of pills, which could...
...Andromeda Strain. Robert Wise translated Michael Crichton (recent Harvard grad)'s sci-fi novel into a cool and canny thriller. An alien micro-organism threatens to destroy the human race in this 1971 film. CH. 4. 9 p.m. Color...
...teen-age girls discovered that cut-off T shirts or skimpy tops fashioned from a couple of handkerchiefs looked good over their hiphuggers. Everyone who saw them thought they looked good too. Finally getting the message, designers this season have come up with a variety of ingeniously engineered micro-tops, near-nude beachwear, and dresses with deep cleavage, bare backs, bare sides and bare shoulders. The summer of '72 promises to be a wide-open season...