Word: subbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though it was cold, the hunters clung there from year to year. During the next two thousand years it grew much colder and damper--a sub-artic world like the present-day tundras of northern Europe. In this severer climate, new species of plants and animals thrived, while others which previously had flourished declined. And the Stone Age hunters, no longer able to stand the winter, went south each fall with the migrating herds of reindeer, to return again in the spring to their favorite camping spot beneath the rocky shelter...
Ethiopia, Basutoland, Bechuanaland, and Swaziland will send students to the United States under the program for the first time next year. Only countries in Sub-Sahara Africa participate in the program...
...Brattle Theatre management announces a new schedule designed to "please all"; a ninemonth Bergman Festival at both the Brattle (with English sub-titles) and the new Harvard Square Theatre (with dubbed-in English dialogue...
...Federal Government, in Jackson's view, is overstaffed. There are, he said, "people engaged in work that does not really need doing. The payroll costs, although formidable, are less important than the price paid in sluggishness of decision and action." The really effective top civil service and sub-Cabinet officials should be kept in Government service by paying them more, and better people should be attracted to temporary high-level jobs by easing conflict-of-interest laws, which Jackson termed "pointless impediments to public service...
...millions of invaders are borne in by air or water. Judged by the ordinary signs of life-growth, motion, the need for food-they are dead. One by one, they find individual targets, which may be a thousand times bigger than their sub-microscopic selves. In such an unequal contest, they should have little chance. But these invaders are superlative saboteurs; they are virus particles, and their targets are cells in the human body...