Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strip next to the varsity's, the J.V. women's fencers pasted Rhode Island 15-1 and two of them, well-skilled freshman Carolyn Powell and junior Jenny Laforet looked particularly polished as they put away easy victories and made all but Lowry on the varsity concerned about the security of their places in the top four...
...Israeli-Egyptian treaty and broader peace negotiations was too strong. The document called for the two nations to begin practical negotiations on Palestinian self-government within a month of the treaty's signing. Six months later, general elections were to be held on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip that would set up a functioning Palestinian administrative council...
...sixties pop art made its debut on the American scene; all the most ludicrous examples of mass urban culture shined as serious artworks. Andy Warhol got rich off his Campbell soup cans, George Segal for his over-all plaster casts of live human beings, Roy Lichtenstein for his comic strip tableaux...
Florida voters opposed by a margin of three-to-one a proposition to allow casino gambling on a 21 mile strip in Miami Beach. Virginians narrowly rejected a proposal to allow pari-mutual betting at horse-racing tracks, and New Jersey residents decided not to allow jai-alai sports betting in their state...
Though interferon has raised the hopes of doctors and laymen alike since its discovery (in a 1960 Flash Gordon comic strip, medics used it to combat an extraterrestrial virus), it is so difficult to recover from cells that only minute quantities have been available for testing. Most interferon, including the supply that will be used in the new tests, comes from Finland, where it is extracted at great expense from white blood cells collected from Red Cross blood donors. As a result, as little as a millionth of an ounce of pure interferon costs close...