Word: oakes
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Russia, a huge chemical plant was built right beside a beloved tourist attraction: Yasnaya Polyana, Leo Tolstoy's gracious country estate. Unmonitored fumes are poisoning Tolstoy's forests of oak and pine, and powerless conservationists can only wince. With equal indifference, the Soviet pulp and paper industry has settled on the shores of Lake Baikal. No matter how fully the effluents are treated, they still defile the world's purest waters...
...letter. Carpenter Louis Merger, 59, said that Madame de Gaulle "asked for the same kind of casket I make for everybody else. When I asked if she didn't want something military, she said 'Non.' " Pointing to the extra-length (6 ft. 11 in.) oak coffin, lined with white quilt and trimmed with an aluminum cross, Merger added: "He was right. Who would need anything more?" Total cost: $72, or $9 more than usual, because of the size...
GENE GALT Oak Park, Mich...
...Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Biologist Raymond L. Hayes and Physician C. Lowell Edwards have given Ga-67 intravenously to 84 patients. At first it shows no selectivity between normal and tumor tissues. But after 48 hours the concentrations are enormously different in diseased and healthy areas: 10 to 1 for some blood cancers, and as high as 100 to 1 in muscle cancer. Ga-67's spectrum of cancer selectivity is probably the widest of any radioisotope...
...bathes, is shaved by his valet and says an early Mass. At breakfast (caffè latte, rolls, fruit), the conversation revolves around the morning news while the Pope glances at newspapers: Le Monde, La Stampa, and Corriere della Sera. At 8:30, in the garden under a centuries-old oak tree, Paul receives a worldwide news briefing that often focuses on church matters: excerpts from a German paper's comments on Vatican finances, for example, or the story in Figaro on a liberal theological congress. At 10, the Pope begins private audiences with important Curia prelates, visiting churchmen...