Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year's migration to the Med has already produced its own new Baedeker of unprecedented pollution, prices, crowding and-less trying of course -exposure of skin to sun (see map). Cost? A few venturesome Italians have discovered that a 15-day tour of Eastern Europe and Russia can be cheaper than two weeks at the messy beaches of Fregene, a popular resort near Rome. Pollution? The French have taken pains to clean up their beaches; however, the Mediterranean around Spain and some parts of Italy has become a mixture of urban and industrial effluents...
...make a deliberate effort to ask for support from party regulars. I did call Mayor Daley, and he's going to meet me at the state fair in Illinois next Wednesday. We'll be touring the fairgrounds together. Some people with tender skin are going to be offended by that. But the fact remains that Mayor Daley is a power in Illinois. If we want to carry that state, it's helpful to have his support. Anybody with a little common sense who wants to see me elected will see that as a wise move...
...Soviets will send the U.S. three drugs, which they have been using to treat cancers of certain white blood cells in the lymphatic system, thyroid and bladder cancers, and breast and ovarian tumors. In return, the U.S. will provide the Soviets with three drugs used experimentally against lung, skin, brain and intestinal cancers. The scientists will also trade research personnel and furnish each other with volumes of technical data concerning the safety and effectiveness of the chemicals. The Soviet scientific material must be translated and evaluated before the drugs can be tried in this country. This means that it will...
...quitting his field altogether because of demoralizing attacks, not from his old critics but from militant black students. "It is too much of a hassle," he says, "to try to be an impartial behavorial scientist when the sole criterion for knowledge, understanding or credibility is the color of your skin...
...other arguments, anatomical evidence that some dinosaurs may have been able to lope across the countryside at speeds of up to 50 m.p.h. The necessary energy, he says, could not have been mustered by cold-blooded animals; their metabolic systems do not work fast enough. With only their hairless skin to protect them, the warm-blooded dinosaurs were highly vulnerable to sharp drops in temperature. And according to some geological evidence, a global chill may have set in at the end of the Cretaceous period, when the dinosaurs were still flourishing. Too large to burrow into the earth and lacking...