Word: reachings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biography of President Warren G. Harding by Historian Francis Russell will finally reach the bookstores next month after much litigation, but history buffs are in for a disappointment. The Shadow of Blooming Grove has some important omissions. Blank spaces are used in a dozen or so places, wherever the biographer attempts to quote from Harding's love letters to Ohio Matron Carrie Phillips. Harding's nephew, Ohio Psychiatrist George T. Harding III, got a court order prohibiting publication of them. Readers will just have to use their imaginations...
...brains of Parkinsonism victims are deficient in dopamine, a natural body chemical essential to normal nerve activity in the midbrain. So, researchers reasoned, why not give the patients extra dopamine? The trouble is that dopamine cannot cross the natural barrier be tween the bloodstream and the brain to reach the deprived cells. But dopa, an amino acid that comes in three forms including L-dopa, crosses the barrier by a process not yet fully understood. It is broken down in the brain to yield the desired dopamine...
...Ireland and 143 days out of Montauk Point, L.I. A seaman since 15, Willis sailed alone in 1954 aboard a balsa raft from Peru to Samoa, and in 1963-64 made a 10,000-mile solo voyage from Peru to Australia. Before his third and last unsuccessful attempt to reach England from America alone, he said: "The greatest challenge is to prevent the solitude from driving you so mad that you want to jump overboard...
Students do not accept ideas uncritically. They do and will listen to many points of view and want to reach an understanding of them with which they are intellectually and personally comfortable. Thus, while we feel it essential to present them with radical ideas, we also feel that they will respond to these ideas critically...
...what has given Saint Laurent his large following is his decision to be the first of Paris' great designers to reach for the mass audience. With the opening of Laurent's Rive Gauche boutique in Paris two years ago, suddenly the subtle signature of haute couture was within the range of everyone. By the end of this year, he hopes to have 18 boutiques throughout Europe, plus ten in the U.S. by the fall of 1969. "Whether the creation is for haute couture or ready-to-wear is not important," he now says. "The act of creation...