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Rapid Relief. Applying the treatment, doctors simply puncture early cold-sore blisters and put a neutral red dye at the base of the lesions. They then expose the sore to the light of an ordinary 15-watt fluorescent tube for 15 minutes, wait one to six hours and repeat the process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cure for Cold Sores? | 7/12/1971 | See Source »

...prevailing view among environmentalists is that if the world does not end with a bang, it will expire with a strangled cough. Ecologist Kenneth Watt says that with auto exhausts increasing nitrogen in the air, "it's only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable." A positively dissenting view comes from Rene Dubos, brilliant microbiologist and experimental pathologist, author of 15 books and still-working professor emeritus at Manhattan's Rockefeller University. Last week he explained his outlook to TIME Correspondent Alan Anderson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Prophet of Optimism | 5/31/1971 | See Source »

Against Hariot-Watt University. Harvard fell 16-8 and dropped two other matches to Edinburgh fifteens. In the final game, against Edinburgh Wednesday Club, the underdogs tallied six tries, eventually falling 37-27, after leading 19-18 at halftime. Clark and O'Grady scored twice each, with Reppun and Stranger adding one apiece. Finn converted three times and added a penalty kick...

Author: By Dave Koplow, | Title: Ruggers Open Spring Competition | 4/16/1971 | See Source »

Diana Rigg as Heloise and Keith Michell as Abelard are lovers not so much star-crossed as celluloid-spliced. A playgoer might even feel that he was watching an ad trailer from the film-to-be. Thrill to A & H in a nude scene played in one-watt lighting. Chill as A is symbolically castrated by some sinister leprechauns left over from a ballet of yesteryear. Hiss the uncle. Chortle with a tipsy canon (Ronald Radd) and a tipsier abbess (Jacqueline Brookes). So much for medieval color. In dialogue. Playwright Millar has spared his audience the one line that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Celluloid-Spliced Lovers | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

...village outside Tokyo, a German Jesuit priest builds a Zen monastery -with the blessing of the Vatican. Two Canadian Protestants arrive in the Black African enclave of Swaziland to set up a 100,000-watt radio transmitter. Farther north in Tanzania, Maryknoll priests and nuns work side by side in the fields with peasants, then help train native leaders for the new communal villages of President Julius Nyerere's socialist state. Wycliffe Bible Translators in South Viet Nam, who lived in Montagnard villages well before American G.I.s came, produce nine new written languages from the native dialects, with more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Missionaries: Christ for a Changing World | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

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