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...parliament. Not represented in the Cairo talks was primitive Yemen, whose boss, Abdullah Sallal, is propped up by 20,000 Egyptian soldiers, but Sallal cabled Cairo announcing his total adherence to whatever is decided. But at week's end, the reported "close agreement" had apparently run into a snag. The three-power talks unexpectedly broke up and, according to a communique, will resume "in a few days...
...paranoic emphasis. The snag in the test-ban talks...
...rebuild Stanford's faculty with a small cadre of ambitious professors who spread the gospel of Bay area living all over the East and Midwest. Instead of high pay, Stanford offered such lures as 100% loans for building handsome ranch houses on university land. To snag former Harvard Sociologist Sanford M. Dornbusch, Stanford doubled its sociology department with men of his choice. In similar deals Stanford captured American Historian David Potter after 19 years at Yale, German Historian Gordon Craig after 20 years at Princeton, Novelist-Critic Albert J. Guerard after 23 years at Harvard. When the faculty...
...animals; the higher the animal, the more complex the system. The complexity is necessary, says Dr. Mayerson, because in the mammal, nature evolved a closed, high-pressure blood-circulating system with conduits of diminishing thickness carrying blood and oxygen to thin-walled capillaries. "But here, nature ran into a snag: the high pressure made the capillaries leaky." Even the large molecules of proteins slip through delicate capillaries. Nature had to invent a collection and drainage system so that whatever Leaked into the tissue spaces around the capillaries could be picked up and put back into circulation in the bloodstream. Nature...
...past year, the regime has cautiously permitted the opening of a few attractive clubs, such as Moscow's Aelita, where young people can sip soft drinks or wine and dance to Dixieland. The snag: Komsomol (Young Communist League) trusties at the door see that only the faithful get in. Young Russians yearn for spring, when they can flee jampacked apartments for the parks. Although Russia is generally a pristine society, on dance floors young couples often lock themselves in a pelvic polka that makes the twist look like a minuet...