Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nasser's propaganda machine is preparing the Egyptians for even worse to come. The radio, TV and press are stressing as an example of national sacrifice the hardships of the British during World War II, when each person got only one egg a week. Egyptians are now eating macaroni instead of rice, which is being exported to earn cash. The cotton crop is again badly infested by leaf worm, but because there is not enough money to buy insecticide, youngsters have been sent into the fields to pick the worm off the plants by hand. The tourist tide...
...ultrasonic vibrations. He hopes to use that method to replace missing teeth and damaged tissues. Working toward the possibility of a "tooth bank," the NIDR Dr. Paul Baer has already nurtured teeth in the yolks of incubating eggs. No one has found a way to transplant teeth from one person to another, but it soon may not be necessary. In 1965, a group of Brown University scientists were able to implant plastic teeth in baboons; the teeth are still firmly rooted, despite constant gnawing on cage bars...
...love." In this way of thinking, God's presence is to be discovered not only in a formal act of worship in a "sacred" place such as a church, but may also become apparent in purely secular events and experiences-an encounter with another person, a selfless surrender to a cause...
There may be imagination in this, but it is a motley one of nine actors and actresses dancing to nine different drums. In the first part, when usually only one person performs at a time, the absence of discipline is not so disatrous. But during Man and Man, when there are always several actors together, the weaknesses of the production emerge. Each tries to improvise his or her own character, gaily trooping along while haphazzardly bumping into others. A tape recorder blares out occasionally. While some may react to it, half the others may be too distracted by their...
...rent supplements plan barely won its first authorization in 1966 after severe cutbacks. It authorizes the Government to contract non-profit and co-operative local housing sponsors to pay the difference between 25 per cent of a poor person's income and his rent in standard housing. The sponsors then reserve part of their housing space for the subsidized tenants, and the Government pays the necessary subsidies on that space for periods of up to 40 years...