Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crichton, author of best-selling novels "The Andromeda Strain" and "The Terminal Man," directed "Coma" after writing the screen-play based on the novel by Robin Cook...
...published "The Andromeda Strain" in his last year at the Medical School. He had already published six other novels, five under the alias John Lange and one under the alias Jeffrey Hudson...
Last week leading flu experts met in Geneva at the World Health Organization. Their main concern was to help develop a vaccine against the reborn strain of flu now ravaging the Soviet Union. Though cases have been reported in China, Finland and Czechoslovakia, A/USSR or Russian flu is still only a threat to the rest of the world. The flu now sweeping 41 states is mostly another new variant called A/Texas...
...this particular case, the snag is apparently occurring along a dogleg bend in the San Andreas Fault in the vicinity of the Palmdale Bulge. There the two huge plates, which normally grind past each other in opposite directions, appear to be locked together, causing a buildup of tremendous strain that eventually must be released in one or more quakes...
...Joseph P. Reardon of the Massachusetts Center for Communicable Diseases said yesterday he expects at least some of the A Texas strain to reach Massachusetts, although none has yet been reported...