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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eighth week, manufacture of follicle-stimulating hormone, which is also involved in sperm production, was down dramatically too. Within nine weeks, the men's testosterone levels had decreased by an average of one-third-and in some cases to within the range where impotence and infertility could occur...
While reading your cover story on earthquakes [Sept. 1], I was shaken by a small earthquake (4.4 on the Richter scale), the first to occur in Birmingham in 18 years. Your article was certainly TIMEly, and the special effects were outstanding...
...tossed top-spin lobs just over the head of the hard-charging Connors. He won his final point with a soft passing shot to the coffin corner that caught Connors going the other way. Manuel fell to his knees in ecstasy, gratitude and delight-a posture that would occur to few other tennis players. With Jimmy already signed up for another lucrative 'elevised match in Las Vegas early next year, Orantes suddenly found himself looming as the logical challenger. Said the young Spaniard happily: "I think now he has to challenge...
Task Force. In the Chicago area, where the number of Government-repossessed houses has risen from a few hundred in the late '60s to 3,300 at present, foreclosures occur seven times more frequently on FHA-insured mortgages than on conventional mortgages. Upset by the Tribune's revelations, Mayor Richard Daley persuaded the FHA to cancel an auction of 700 foreclosed houses scheduled for last month while a federal-city task force inspects them to determine their fitness for habitation. The local U.S. Attorney is investigating allegations against six mortgage lenders for mortgage-insurance fraud...
False Hysterics. The problem is that there is nothing intrinsically funny about widowhood, grass or otherwise, and it is a mistake to try to create big boffs, broad running jokes out of these conditions. Silly, honest, human errors occur when someone is trying to make a new life, and it should be possible to make gentle rueful human comedy out of the attempt to muddle through. But Phyllis is paced and played as if it were a zany farce. Fay is hobbled by an ex-husband whose profession is surely borscht-belt comedy. It is impossible to understand...