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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does the cure really come from chymopapain? Many U.S. doctors have their doubts. They note that by far the commonest forms of low-back pain involve muscles, ligaments or tendons rather than discs; these can usually be treated best with rest, physiotherapy and regular exercise. Many of the claimed chymopapain cures, the critics say, are the result of a dramatic placebo effect...
...contest started on an auspicious note as Cornell won the pre-game toss of the puck and chose to defend the east end of Watson rink. The Big Red, thus avoided the taunts of Harvard's vocal, intimidating fans situated in section 18 and 19. Cornell goalie Steve Napier was bombarded in the second period with two hefty fish, and the enemy netminder let by two Crimson goals. While performing amidst the peace of the east end, during the first, third and overtime periods, Napier gave up only one tally...
...Broadway Theatre may not get much of a chance to show its stuff if it doesn't come up with better material than American Buffalo, the David Mamet play of several years ago chosen as its first production. These days, Mamet is a playwright of some note. His talent seems to have matured--his A Life in the Theatre, currently running at the real off-Broadway, in Greenwich Village, is a marvelous work, full of wit and the kind of charm only a developed writer can muster. But American Buffalo is clearly from Mamet's earlier, less developed phase. Walter...
...greatest of ironies, one of Moscow's associates in the Ethiopian adventure is Israel, whose friendship with Addis Ababa dates from the 1950s (if not, as some Israelis note, from the days of King Solomon's celebrated dalliance with the Queen of Sheba). The friendship is maintained today because predominantly Christian Ethiopia remains the only non-Arab power in the area, and the Israelis are hoping to retain a foothold there...
...that government officials describe as "justifiable terror." Every night members of a counterrevolutionary group of so-called white terrorists are slain in the streets. One day last week a young man lay dead on a sidewalk near the city's busy marketplace; to his chest was pinned a note warning citizens of the dangers of dissent...