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...fourth Earl kept up the family tradition, but the legendary Leicester patience has at last run out. The present Earl, 63-year-old Thomas William Edward Coke has risen after only 22 years of silence to make his maiden speech. His subject: pollution. "I hope we shall use safer chemicals in place of those which have devastated the countryside," he said...
...wearer a seat on a crowded bus. For another, it is a surefire conversation piece at a cocktail party. She reports that one anxious mother bought a puff for her 17-year-old daughter to wear on a cross-country car trip, explaining that "she'll be safer if people think she's pregnant...
...dollar as the pre-eminent currency in international trade. Reason: Common Market moneys will still be able to fluctuate within the present band of 4½% against the dollar, even though the margin is halved with respect to each other. European importers and exporters will no doubt feel safer issuing invoices in one of their own currencies, which can fluctuate only half as much as the dollar. Even a spokesman for the East German government declared that his country is "no longer interested" in trade deals set in dollars. Multinational corporations will probably convert more of their dollar holdings into...
...world powers that had refused to talk to each other for nearly 25 years. Despite the President's repeated comparison of his trip to the Apollo 11 flight, Peking is too much a part of this world to be the moon, and a presidential jet is far safer and more comfortable than a space capsule. Yet this too was a historic adventure, an uncertain portent for mankind's future...
Aspirin may be safer than you think. Two Harvard researchers have found it to be an effective contraceptive in female rats. Indomethacin, a common anti-inflammatory drug used to treat arthritis, was found to be twenty to thirty times as effective as aspirin as a rat contraceptive...