Word: leatherizing
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Like police work, most medical sleuthing is done in the field by the "shoe leather" epidemiologists, some from the state's public health service, others from the CDC. They crisscrossed the state to interrogate every one of the stricken Legionnaires and the families and friends of the deceased. Their quest: a common denominator, a set of experiences that would link all the victims, such as meals taken together, rooms in the same hotel, exposure to similar contamination. Their method: careful questioning and cross-referencing...
Ever unassuming and casual-he favors Western blue jeans and leather jackets-Matthes once harbored notions of becoming a rock-'n'-roll drummer, but has since decided on a more settled career: "sport research." More settled too is his active social life. He recently became engaged to the most impressive of all swimmers, East Germany's Kornelia Ender, 17, who last month set five world records in five days...
Even the use of the word "democracy" in the draft statement was cause for contention. As one high-level Italian Communist explained to TIME Correspondent Herman Nickel: "How could [Italian Party Chief] Enrico Berlinguer sign a statement on democracy that [Czechoslovak President] Gustav Husak could also sign?" The red-leather-bound final declaration, placed before each delegate at the opening of the two-day conference, affirmed the "complete independence" of each party "in accordance with the socio-economic conditions and specific national features prevailing in the country concerned...
...rationale is part aesthetic-the old buildings often have a certain charm and a nostalgic quality-and part economic. To convert a leather factory to handsome apartments in Peabody, Mass., cost $16 per square foot. "By contrast," says William Wheaton, an urban economist at M.I.T., "you cannot build any new housing for less than $22 a square foot, and it looks like hell when it is built." To make conversion even more attractive, the Federal Government will help pay for such projects...
...rain contraptions are often so heavy and cumbersome that it is hard to see what advantage they offer over the oiled linen cape. Pieces of leather or waxed cotton are tightly stretched over a spokelike array of rattan or whalebone ribs; the ribs are attached by wires and hinges to a central rod so that the covering can be opened out or collapsed at will. It rarely works as planned. The ribs often lose elasticity when wet and crack when dried...