Word: presentability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arab. A program advocated by Gahal, a right-wing nationalist party led by Cabinet Minister Menahem Begin, is for outright annexation. Though she generally favors Allon, Mrs. Meir has publicly refused to commit herself to any of these approaches?until and unless negotiations with the Arabs begin. For the present, the occupation issue scarcely figures in electoral politics. Elections for seats in the Knesset will take place next month, and Mrs. Meir is practically certain of victory. But her successor may well be determined four years from now by a combination of personality and approach to the occupied territories...
...term congenital malformations covers all three broad categories of defects present at birth...
...present, the international assembly offered more hope for prevention and improved treatment than cure of birth defects. One preventive technique is amniocentesis-inserting a needle through the pregnant woman's abdomen, into the amniotic sac, and withdrawing fluid for analysis of the cells shed by the embryo. For the apparently normal woman this would never be recommended. But it is a boon for the woman with a history of pregnancy mishaps, or one whose family is known to harbor inheritable defects. At Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Dr. Henry L. Nadler reported, his department has "managed...
...sort of pre-egg form while she is still in her mother's womb, or shortly after birth. This explains why the mother's health, at conception and during pregnancy, may be important a generation later. Therefore, West Germany's Dr. Widukind Lenz concluded, "the present trend toward earlier sexual maturity, earlier marriage and earlier reproduction is biologically favorable...
...unforgettable, in fact, that Graham organized two more benefits like it. He chose an old auditorium in the heart of San Francisco's black ghetto. It was called the Fillmore. Then he switched to another site, the present Fillmore West, set up the Fillmore East as the second axis of the rock world, and proved that rock was a business worth administering well...