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...commuters waded through kneehigh slush and the less graceful slipped on ice, life at Harvard went on a little wetter than usual yesterday...
...some of the world's best skiing. "Powder" snow, the best of all, is often hip-deep in Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho and Utah. The snow is more granular and less plentiful in the East, where the air is wetter and the mountains smaller than in the West. Eastern slopes are also icier and thus harder to negotiate. Yet skiers who practice on this Eastern "boiler plate" learn of necessity to dig their ski edges deeper into the hill and tend to have better control. The quality of the snow at most European resorts lies somewhere in between the West...
...rest of the measures represent a grab-bag of concerns, large and small. Some are old standbys: fluoridation programs, school bonds, lottery and bingo proposals, and wetter or drier liquor laws. Others are new either in scope or in concept. One example is California's incredibly stiff anti-obscenity proposition (TIME, Oct 23). Among the more interesting...
...absorb body heat and circulate it. To achieve that end, manufacturers used a specially treated synthetic rubber called foam neoprene (containing tiny bubbles of trapped gas for better insulation) that allowed the proper slow seepage of water. But the early wet suits looked as awful as dry suits, only wetter. And they were black. Dye, it turned out, was death on foam neoprene; any injection of color considerably weakened the rubber. So did regular exposure to air. Finally the solution was found: a protective nylon knit fabric that would adhere to the neoprene and keep it durable whatever the color...
Kathy is a bed wetter and mother wondered if it was because of mental strain. It seems as though when mother was in the hospital having her last child, the father molested Kathy. She was very ashamed and has not yet talked to ther mother about it, but has told all the children in the neighborhood as well as her sister who in turn told her mother. It was said that the children have been exposed entirely too much to sex. The parents still have a great amount of sex attraction for each other and hide nothing from the children...