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Food Services officials said yesterday the elimination of student pictures from bursar's cards this year has made them more difficult to trace than in the past...

Author: By Angela M. Belgrove, | Title: Food Services Examine Bursar's Cards to Catch Freeloaders Not on Board | 3/30/1977 | See Source »

...director Norman Ayrton's credit that throughout most of the two and a half hours of War and Peace, the historian's illusion of control is sustained. By coloring the play's war scenes with two large slide screens that at times trace Napoleon's progress across the map of Europe and at times stain the background with a dull blood red, Ayrton gives the soldiers' disordered flights a suggestive significance beyond the mere chronicling of events. And by frequently isolating the characters at opposite ends of the stages, Ayrton lends to the few joint tableaux an emotional compression that...

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: Grand Delusions | 3/30/1977 | See Source »

...need a professional researcher, write for a list of qualified practitioners to the Board for Certification of Genealogists, 1307 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. Average hourly fee: up to $10. For Anglo-Americans, Debrett's of London, the guru of British pedigree and form, opened a tracing bureau for the common man in February and received more than 1,000 inquiries its first month. For easy-to-trace families, Debrett's can deliver eight generations for roughly $200. In the U.S., there is a nourishing mail-order trade in expensive coats of arms (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: White Roots: Looking for Great-Grandpa | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

...part of their creed that the entire family is a unit in the future paradise, Mormons are required to trace their ancestors as far back as possible. Since the church was only founded in 1830, most of these forebears were not Mormons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: White Roots: Looking for Great-Grandpa | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

...implant technique is partly a response to demand. Many women who discover that they have breast cancer are no longer willing to submit to disfiguring radical mastectomies, which involve the removal of the entire breast, underlying muscle and neighboring lymph nodes, even if they show no trace of cancer. Though mastectomies have been favored by U.S. experts as the surest route to survival in cases of breast cancer, some doctors are beginning to have doubts about them. Dr. Samuel Hellman of Harvard's Joint Center for Radiation Therapy points out that radical surgery-or any other treatment, including radiation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Alternative to Mastectomy | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

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