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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eyes, ears, skin-even reflexes and blood pressure -may be those one expects in a 60-year-old." Complicating matters is the fact that physiological aging varies not only from person to person but within the individual as well. Eyesight may fail while hearing remains acute. Says Psychiatrist Robert N. Butler, director of the National Institute on Aging: "One may be at different 'ages' at one and the same time in terms of mental capacity, physical health, endurance, creativity and emotions...
...What's in a name? A lot of litigation, that's what. After a round of fisticuffs in New York federal court, the makers of Hawaiian Punch have just been walloped with a decision allowing a rival to market a similarly packaged tropical drink called Punch 'n Fruity. In Los Angeles, the Avis Rent A Car System, now owned by Norton Simon Inc., is wrangling with the auto firm's founder, Warren Avis, over whether he can use the Avis name to start a worldwide send-flowers-by-wire network. Competing national brewers have been...
...Peter N. Stowell, director of the Urban Mass Transit Authority said yesterday that city, state and federal agencies "have been working on the planning stages of the project for up to three years," adding that the planning phase had cost over $6 million...
...Faculty members agree to any of the proposals, student members hope to have the committee's chairman bring them before the Faculty to ask that the Faculty vote to implement the changes, Mortimer N. Sellers '80, a CRR member, said yesterday...
...place in the history of the German workers' movement." Other officials were scarcely in agreement. Indeed, Bahro's broadcast has infuriated the East German leadership, which is determined to stamp out nonconformity, ranging from the manifest heresy of Bahro's book to mildly subversive rock-'n'-roll lyrics. Along with prison and harassment, East Germany's main weapon against protest is deportation. In the past few months, nearly two dozen ranking intellectuals and artists have been expelled from the country...