Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maura Costin, whose Harvard swimming career has been an endless sequence of injuries, feels healthy again but she said last night that she has changed to new events to avoid putting strain on her tender back. Costin will stick to "mainly sprints"--the 100-yd. butterfly and the 200-yd. freestyle for instance...
...Stoppard, his new play Night and Day, currently running at London's Phoenix Theater, is a distinct departure. The characters are emotionally engaged and audience-involving. Like flexing previously unused muscles, this leads to odd moments of strain, which is not to say that Stoppard's satiric eye and élan vital do not make for a prevailingly entertaining evening...
...himself. A complex man of deep and varying moods, he could in a streak of despondency suddenly decide to give up, leaving a divided Iran that might well face civil war. Diplomats who saw him last week found him in better spirits than before the military changeover; fatigue and strain showed in ( his face, but he was not cracking. Indeed, he appeared to be spurred on by anger over what he feels was the deception and gross negligence of former friends and officials, like Hoveida, on whom he counted to help build his dream of a modern nation. These...
These opium poppies grow in Turkey. They are not your ordinary Papaver somniferum, but a new strain developed over eleven years by a Soviet scientist from Armenia. Infuriated by his government's decision to end the better-poppy-for-socialism program (his aim was to produce a more potent drug for medical use), Dr. Krikor Grotrian makes a deal to sell the seeds to an Armenian dealer, who smuggles them into Turkey. There, largely because they bear scarlet blooms rather than the more common white petals of opium flowers, they flourish undetected in the hinterland. What Grotrian does not realize...
Walter Gilbert '53, American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology, and his Harvard research team are working on the insulin problem. Gilbert has been using the MIT P-3 lab for the past year pending completion of the Harvard lab. This past July his group developed a bacterial strain which synthesized rat proinsulin, a modified form of insulin...