Word: strains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that single out and classify bacterial troublemakers are complex, time-consuming and sometimes inconclusive. Often, before the results are in, the disease has spread or the patient has died. In the future, though, bacteria may lose their cloak of anonymity more quickly. Scientists have discovered that each species and strain has a distinctive "fingerprint" that can be used for virtu ally immediate identification...
BEETHOVEN: DIABELLI VARIATIONS (RCA Victor). Thirty-three variations on a waltz by the Austrian composer Anton Diabelli pose a formidable test for the virtuoso talents of 32-year-old John Browning. Much talked about but seldom performed, they strain the pianist's technical mastery and his emotional ambience. Browning, who is one of the best of the "percussive" school, passes the technical trials splendidly, but in the melancholy later variations, when he should be exploring Beethoven's darker nature, he appears to be marking time before the florid finale...
...sports which require constant strain such as wrestling and swimming, seniors are hard to find. In the past six years seniors have comprised less than 10 per cent of the wrestling team twice and 20 per cent twice. This year's graduating class is the only class in years to finish with as many seniors as there were sophomores two years before. The class of 1965, in contrast, had seven letter-winners in 1963, three in 1964, letter and two in 1965. The class of 1965 lettered five in 1962, four...
...capacity. Beyond that, the Medicare bill prescribes medical standards that hospitals must meet before they can qualify as Medicare institutions; only 3,000 of the U.S.'s 8,200 hospitals had been approved as of last week. Another 3,000 may be approved this month, but the extra strain put on those that do qualify is bound to be enormous. The Government has no way to even out the increased patient load, for Medicare registrants are free to choose their own doctor or hospital. Even if there were enough beds available, the nurse shortage is rapidly worsening; the nation...
...color to the sculpture." His paintings presage his excursions into solid stuff, explaining in their strong chromaticism Marini's expressionist sculpture. In pursuing his vision, Marini took his equestrians on a strange course through the steeplechase of time. At first, he made his man and horse strain as one being toward a high point of joy. Then, as the years passed, he began portraying man in his canvases and sculptures as tumbling, unseated and falling, and the horse splayed, with neck stretched and hooves sprawled. "My equestrian figures," says Marini of his later work, "are symbols of the anguish...