Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Emily Feldman, sure to compete in at least three events in next month's nationals, swam the 500-meter freestyle in 5:24.26, placed fifth in the 200-meter back stroke with 2:17.39 and still had enough pulling power to help teammates Costin, Liz Adams and Adele Joel earn a third in the 800-meter freestyle relay...
Kevin Conway paints a psychograph of Treves, each brush stroke subtler than the last, the kindest of healers plagued with the darkest of self-doubts. And Carole Shelley's Mrs. Kendal - curious, amused, emotionally generous - is a womanly oasis, and like the play itself, no mirage in a parched season. - T. E. Kalem
...second theory discounts the impact of Washington's China stroke and argues that the Geneva talks have been temporarily stalled by a familiar Soviet bargaining tactic. Said Richard Perle, an aide to Senator Henry Jackson and a stern but widely respected critic of SALT: "The Soviets bargain especially hard at the eleventh hour. They see us as pliant, and they have learned to expect that stonewalling will win further concessions from us." A senior Administration official conceded: "They sensed that we were eager for SALT. And so they introduced additional issues. It's a typical Soviet bargaining tactic...
Wings. In one of her rare American appearances, Constance Cummings gave one of the best performances of the year as the victim of a stroke, imprisoned in the Gulag of her own fragile body. Those who missed her in the play's too-short run at the Public Theater will have a second chance early next year, when Wings alights on Broadway...
...Soviet Physiologist Levon A. Matinyan, who claims to have regenerated severed spinal cords in rats. If he has, he is the first to have done it, and many American spinal experts are openly skeptical of Matinyan's report. Still, the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke was sufficiently intrigued to invite Matinyan and the Polenov's director, Veniamin U. Ugryumov, to the U.S. in 1976. American researchers are trying to duplicate the rat experiment, but Dr. Murray Goldstein, NlNCDS's deputy director, says that preliminary results are disappointing. In Leningrad, Ugryumov acknowledged that...