Word: weights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...along the Seine. To the Gaullists in the National Assembly there was only one thing wrong with this surfeit of love: it is not producing enough babies. Introducing new legislation designed to change that situation, ex-Premier Michel Debre warned: "There is a direct and immediate link between the weight of our population and our future in Europe and the world...
...repertory of 1,200 numbers goes from spirituals to Bach, Beethoven and Mendelssohn. Backed up by the 10,000-pipe tabernacle organ, with Veteran Organists Alexander Schreiner or Frank Asper, the choir, nicknamed "the singing Saints," has a weight and body unexcelled in choral sound. But "we have not let this become a canned thing," says Director Condie, and he often explores more dissonant modern music. Still, his favorite is a hymn written by one who went with Brigham Young's wagon train, William Clayton, while the prairie winds blew about...
...work rules were capricious and tyrannical. In fact, the work rule changes are similiar to those recommended by a presidential commission and approved by another presidential panel (see box following page). And management's right to change the rules has been upheld in the federal courts. Against that weight of neutral and expert opinion, the unions have wielded only one really persuasive argument-the threat to strike if the companies do what the U.S. Government has repeatedly said they have reasons and the right...
...next month, he has a guest slot to fill conducting the orchestra of The Hague. In the fall, Ozawa will be one of the first guest conductors of the Montreal Symphony at the new Place des Arts. Before each concert he eats rice and Japanese vegetables, lest he lose weight and look even younger. "On your beefsteak I lose my appetite," he worries. "I would grow thinner...
...most expert and intensive care around the clock. To diaper them with out changing the balmy temperature of their isolation, nurses worked through armholes in the incubator sides. Some of the babies were no bigger than a man's two fists, and all were tiny. Since their weight at birth was less than 5½ Ibs., they were classed as premature.* From these wrinkled, red blobs of humanity, investigators at the Clinical Research Center for Premature Infants hope to glean basic medical knowledge to be applied in the saving, care and feeding of preemies everywhere...