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...converts have been made in more than 30 different countries. To propagate its teachings, Soka Gakkai publishes a daily newspaper, Seikyo Shimbun (circ. 4.5 million), operates its own university, Soka Digaku, near Tokyo, and has built a temple as big as the Houston Astrodome at the foot of Mount Fuji...
Tension, Tension. If his genius is joyous insanity, his approach is in painstaking earnest. He spends more than a year laboring on each script. "What you're after," he explains, "is to make a Mount Whitney of a picture. What you settle for is a wonderful snowball." The time in between, he says, is agony -"compression, remolding and restructuring-tension, tension, tension...
Smith has been much less successful both in maintaining an equal male-female faculty ratio and in promoting enough women to higher positions that other comparable women's colleges, such as Wellesley and Mount Holyoke, Adams said...
...percentage of tenured women at Smith has fallen from 54 per cent in 1957, to 21 per cent in 1972, while at Mount Holyoke, it has gone from 55 per cent to 54 per cent, she said...
...Boston physicians base their conclusion on a study of 792 skiers injured at Vermont's Mount Snow during the 1972-73 season. The current rate of 3.4 injuries per 1,000 skier-days was virtually the same as that observed at the same mountain in 1960-61. But the pattern of ski injuries was greatly changed. In the past, the classic ski injury, the broken ankle, accounted for nearly half of all ski fractures. Now, because of stiff plastic boots that protect the ankles, and bindings that release under bone-breaking tensions, such injuries make up only...