Word: treating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure-fire way of decreasing the number of insects would be to treat them as a valuable natural resource, such as oil and agriculturally produced food. An insect industry would develop, and in 20 years we would face a shortage...
...team-and the winner of the World Cup in London last fall-the Merited Master of Sport from Rostov-on-Don will be hard-pressed to repeat her '72 victory. She is still not fully recovered from a vertebral injury suffered last summer. A masseur will treat her daily in Canada. She recently observed: "In gymnastics, if you don't feel right, you might as well forget performing." Last month her training pace at the Palace of Sports in Minsk was up to five hours a day and her weight was down 7 lbs. (to 103), thanks...
Lowdown Blues. Likable it certainly is. This production, though sometimes lethargic, comes closer to the original conception of Gershwin and Librettist DuBose Heyward than any previous stage version. Houston's key decision was to treat Porgy and Bess as a real opera rather than a somewhat fancy Broadway musical. That meant restoring a good deal of rarely heard music. Gershwin's recitatives have traditionally been replaced by spoken dialogue. Most productions have entirely eliminated a brief, sensual scene showing the night life of Charleston, with the character Jasbo Brown playing some lowdown blues on a splendidly...
Women have been integrated into the barracks, but the Army has built separate lavatories, and both sexes will be required to wear bathrobes in the hallways. Like Annapolis and the Air Force Academy, which have also just admitted their first women, West Point is determined to treat men and women identically. But there are a few exceptions at the Point: women will learn karate instead of boxing and wrestling, and they will carry M-16 rifles, which are 2 Ibs. lighter than...
THOMAS PAINE, 28, a landscape architect, and his brother CHARLES PAINE, 24, an engineer, are descendants of Robert Treat Paine of Massachusetts. Thomas believes if their ancestor were alive today, he would "be a consumer advocate, something like Ralph Nader. He would work outside the political parties to clean up politics because he would sense a feeling of hopelessness within our political life." Not so, says Charles: "I think Robert Treat Paine would see our democracy as still pretty vital." Thomas agrees, noting that "democracy is working, but there is a tremendous lack of people in public life whom...