Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...quirk of weather or topology that disoriented the whales' biological sonar systems. To those who see omens, it seemed that the whales were trying to tell us something. To those who have read the remarkable novel The Day of the Dolphin, the event had a haunting ring. In that book, Novelist Robert Merle fantasizes an unsettling interview between a reporter and Bi, one of the first dolphins to master English...
Nelson chose as his lead-off witness Dr. Hugh J. Davis, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Johns Hopkins University. Since 1962 Davis has specialized in intrauterine devices (lUDs) and he is one of the inventors of a ring device not yet on the market. Davis argued that "breast cancers have been induced in at least five different species of animals by treatment with the same synthetic hormones being marketed in the oral contraceptives. Every important agent which has a carcinogenic [cancer-causing] effect in humans has been shown to cause cancer in animals. There is no reason...
...message in the window of a bathroom boutique in London's elegant Mayfair district has a familiar ring. It is a takeoff on a couplet* from 17th century English Poet Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress." There is nothing familiar about the bathtub for sale inside. It measures a hearty 24 sq. ft., is meant for two-preferably not square-bathers, and is fast becoming the new style in ablutions for the luxury trade around the world...
...Super Fight The Vegas odds for next week's "Super Fight" are 6-5, bettors' choice. Muhammad AH (né Cassius Clay) says that he is going to put Rocky Marciano away in the fifth round. Ring Magazine Editor Nat Fleischer likes the Rock. Ali v. Marciano? Didn't Rocky die last year in a plane crash? Well, yes -but not before he had finished filming a simulated fight with Ali. The fight between boxing's only two undefeated heavyweight champs will be shown for the first and supposedly the only time...
...producer-promoter of this unusual event is Murry Woroner, the Miamian behind radio's popular computerized boxing series (TIME, Nov. 8, 1968). For the fight, a panel of several hundred sportswriters and ex-boxers rated each of the champs on 129 characteristics (speed, tendency to cut, ring generalship). The results were then put through an NCR 315 computer, which spun out a punch-by-punch script...