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With monotonous similarity, one big company after another last week reported first-quarter earnings: sales up, profits down. The figures were a measure of the deep inroads of higher taxes and costs. Samples:
Gertrude Stein's libretto "shows saints moving about in Spanish landscape and doing all the things that saints do, such as praying, singing hymns, seeing visions, performing miracles, traveling and organizing." The trouble is that Stein's saints sing Steinese. Samples:
Lady's Garter. Before trying to guess the letters in a phrase, the panel gets a one-line clue from Evans. These are often witty and usually to the point. Evans may spend as long as 15 hours thinking them up for a given show. Samples of his clues...
Chimps & Antibodies. Dr. Bodian began to suspect the old theory two years ago while analyzing a series of gamma globulin samples from human blood. He found that 80 to 90% of it contained antibodies that would attack and kill live polio virus. Such antibodies, he reasoned, could only come from...
Not all finds from the depths were dead when they reached the Galathea. In charge of Dr. Claude E. ZoBell of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at La Jolla, Calif. were strong steel cylinders specially designed to take samples of bottom ooze and bring them to the surface without change...