Word: personals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week Superior Court Judge Kenneth Eymann resolved the legal battle by ruling that God has no property rights in the State of California. The law, he wrote, requires that "the grantee must be a person, either natural or artificial, in existence at the time of the conveyance and capable of taking title." Duly voiding God's deed, the judge gave Gottlieb 30 days to police...
...bore may earn his title for reasons other than his innately yawn-provoking characteristics. Whatever Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis is like as a private person is irrelevant; as a public personage she has become for many people a colossal bore. Jackie with hemline up. Jackie with hemline down. Jackie and Ari at Maxim's. Jackie shopping on the Via Gregoriana, the Rue du Faubourg St. Honoré, Madison Avenue. What could be more tiresome...
Rock these days seems to be retreating from the sound barrier. The mind-blasting chaos of California-bred acid is still to be heard, and almost everywhere the unmistakable beat goes on. At the same time, though, rock has become more personal, curious and deep, largely through the work of a new breed of solo troubadours who write their own stuff and occasionally deliver it in person. The handy and somewhat disparaging label for this new style of defused, intimate and literate pop is "salon rock." No one in the business, however, puts down the genuine talents...
Response to a Challenge. Why can virtually all infants and many adults digest lactose, while other adults cannot? One theory is that the ability to produce lactase, and thus to digest lactose, is the response to a challenge: if a person continues to drink milk after he has been weaned and through adulthood, he will always be able to digest it. But if he goes without milk for months or years, he loses that ability...
...provide "a 10% raise in salary, over a ten-year period, for every teacher in the United States, from kindergarten through universities (about $9.8 billion required); $10 million each to 200 of the better smaller colleges ($2 billion required); seven-year fellowships (freshman through Ph.D.) at $4,000 per person per year for 50,000 new scientists and engineers ($1.4 billion required); contributions of $200 million each toward the creation of ten new medical schools ($2 billion required)." Former President Eisenhower was more succinct: "To spend $40 billion to reach the moon," he said in 1963, "is just nuts...