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...activities. Hence, the surging Japanese economy will likely continue its pace. But thoughtful Japanese are already wary of their impending prosperity. A Tokyo professor confides he has decided to give up his job in order to move his family out of Japan's industrial belt. He observes, without a trace of a smile, that "GNP translated into Japanese means Gross National Pollution...
...Stanford team believes that a large portion of the miscarriages among operating-room personnel may have been caused by inhalation of trace amounts of chemicals that were present in the O.R. atmosphere. The researchers urged further studies to determine whether there is a cause-and-effect relationship. But the authors are not waiting until those studies are completed before issuing a warning about the newly recognized hazard. They have installed better air-filtering machinery in operating rooms at Stanford and suggested that physicians treating pregnant women avoid anaesthesia whenever possible...
...trace, as when an agent is asked for information on someone and can find nothing...
...didn't take the feds long to trace the "source" who leaked the Pentagon's massive study of U.S. involvement in Vietnam to Cambridge. After a "coming out" press conference at the Boston Federal Building (actually it was the occasion of his surrender to the U.S. Marshal), Daniel Ellsberg '52 enlisted two Harvard law professors to defend him on charges of theft and unauthorized possession of classified government documents...
...guitar. Last week's première segment dealt with the words bull and fly. The visuals ran rapidly through the various kinds of "bull"-bullfrog, bully, Bull Moose Party, rodeo bull, bulldogs. "That is a lot of bull," Chapin remarked inevitably. The segment on flying managed to trace that activity from Icarus to the 747 via Superman...