Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...retain the "lost" tribe as a link with man's distant past, the Philippine government may designate the Tasaday forest home-estimated to be twelve square miles-as a preserve that will be off limits to loggers, ranchers, miners and other invaders. But even well-intentioned visitors from the 20th century may undermine any future anthropological studies of the tribe; gifts of a bow and arrow, a metal bolo knife and sugar from Dafal and the investigating scientists are already moving the Tasaday out of the Stone...
...increase of women in the Houses will force changes in the House Intramural program, Floyd N. Wilson, director of intramural athletics at Harvard, said last week. "The issue at hand is whether to retain the system as it is or to change it because of Radcliffe," he said...
Director John Schlesinger and writer Penelope Gilliatt have created something free from self-pity or self-hate, even though they deal with the upper-middle-class. Their film starts with the question "Do you feel any pain?" It ends with the conclusion that people can retain emotional sensitivity, self-respect and respect for others if they are willing to build on the world that's given them. Some might say that the message is dull simply because it is quietist, or that it is appropriate only to these three people. Such reactions would--from whatever point-of-view--be puerile...
...expected to win that first test, but as Ambassador George Bush said, the vote "doesn't change a thing." To offset the defeat, he could point to Japan's decision, reached only 24 hours before, to co-sponsor the U.S. resolution to admit Peking but retain Taipei's seat...
DOMESTIC RELATIONS. A wife would no longer routinely take her husband's name, though she could choose to do so, or he could choose to take hers. If the couple retain different surnames, they would have to choose which name they wanted for the children. The age of consent for marriage would be the same for both sexes. Alimony would be available to either spouse, according to the financial facts of the individual case. Though child-custody laws that specify a preference for the mother would be illegal, in practice, a judge would still be free to decide...