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Another problem which students presented to Mrs. Bunting is the width of the steep, wooden stairs: 31 inches. One Cliffie commented that she "would not ask any friend of mine to risk his life carrying anything downstairs that weighed more than ten pounds." Mrs. Bunting tentatively offered to have College workmen or professional movers move everyone out, but another student noted that "anyone carrying things down those stairs is bound to get killed, and Radcliffe workmen have as much right to live...
...prospectors who find that price too steep, the Survey scientists are already developing a hand-held "baby snooper" that is expected to cost about $3,000. It will shoot low-energy X rays at the ground, causing silver on the surface to fluoresce, and will measure the fluorescence on a scintillation counter. Senftle sees the baby snooper as the silver equivalent of the inexpensive Geiger counter, which leads uranium prospectors directly to their quarry...
...birth rate-yearly births per 1,000 population-began its decline in 1958, twelve years after its precipitate climb, then drifted slowly downward through '59, '60, and '61. In 1962 the curve dropped sharply and continued its steep dip through the first months of 1966. Preliminary figures for the first two months of this year show an even lower rate than for the same period in 1965. The fertility rate, which relates directly to the number of young people rather than to the population as a whole, has shown a slightly slower drop because the young, "fertile...
That was too steep a price for losers to ask, even at the going cost of consensus. Thus ended the 21-year partnership...
...stifling and stifled. The young girl Hilde Wangel is Solness' mirage of the second chance, lost youth, lost inspiration, lost love recovered. But life is a role that man cannot rehearse or reverse. Sir Michael Redgrave as Solness thunders, hisses and froths like a wave crashing on a steep beach. Celia Johnson, as his wife, is as bleakly crisp as burnt bacon. However, Maggie Smith as Hilde is too much the calculating minx, seemingly unaware that the sliest seductive weapon of the young is youth...