Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will be on domestic and economic issues. In their second encounter, Ford and Carter will chew over foreign policy and national defense, and the third will be open to any subject. Dates of those sessions have not been selected. Between the second and third meetings, Dole and Mondale will stage the first debate of vice-presidential candidates...
...such a volatile situation, key states could be lost or won by how each candidate performs during the debates. The Federal Election Commission last week gave the League of Women Voters permission to stage the discussions, ruling that the organization would not violate bans on private campaign contributions by putting up $150,000 to buy TV time. Former Senator Eugene McCarthy, running as a liberal independent...
...transplant patient is heavily dosed with drugs that interfere with the function of white blood cells-the major weapon of the immune system-and block the formation of antibodies. These are the wondrous proteins designed by nature to seek out invading cells, including transplant tissue, and set the stage for their destruction by the white cells. At best, though, immunosuppression is a blunderbuss approach that also leaves the body unshielded against lethal germs and sometimes apparently cancer...
Died. Lotte Lehmann, 88, famed German-born prima donna and legendary lieder singer; at her home in Santa Barbara, Calif. A warm, sensitive actress whose amber soprano was infinitely expressive, Lehmann could electrify an audience by merely stepping on the stage. She made her debut with the Hamburg Opera in 1910, four years later with the Vienna Opera, where she created several roles for her friend Richard Strauss, and in 1934 with the Metropolitan. Notable among her 100 roles were her yielding Sieglinde in Die Walküre, her devout Elisabeth in Tannhäuser and, most outstanding...
...Blood. In any case, a 5% or 6% inflation rate is consistent with the projections of both liberal and conservative economists for this stage in the recovery. "It just doesn't get your blood pressure up," says Washington University's Murray Weidenbaum, a member of TIME Board of Economists. Higher wholesale prices, in fact, often point to renewed industrial demand for key materials. U.S. Steel spokesmen say that the company's decision earlier this month to raise the price of sheet and strip products by 4.5% indicated, in part, its faith that steel users were prospering...