Word: sizes
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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There are other far-out experiments. One group, living at Sandstone, a handsome complex of houses near Los Angeles, has varied in size from three to twelve adults, and currently consists of only five: three men and two women. Says Barbara Williamson, a member of what she calls the "intentional" family: "It's a smorgasbord. It's so much more exciting to have nine different dishes than just one." The group has had no children yet because it wants to stabilize its "marriage" first...
...significant hydrocarbon contribution from the land [municipal wastes] contribute about 10 million tons of oil to the world's oceans each year." According to Blumer, the immediate effects of oil spills-dead fish and birds-are followed by long-term damage to marine ecology. "Compared to the size of the accidents," he said grimly, "the present countermeasures against oil in the oceans are inadequate...
...choices, and the pros are nothing if not thorough in casing the prospects. College records, glowing press clippings, gaudy trophies mean nothing in themselves. All that counts is a player's potential for prospering in the brutal world of pro football-a survival test that is measured in size, speed, strength and skill, plus a certain intangible that pro coaches like to call "desire." That is how TIME has chosen its All-America Team since 1958, and those were the criteria for the choices...
...Coach Darrell Royal calls him a "superplayer, who hasn't played a bad game in three years." As another coach puts it with telling simplicity: "He just gets out there and stirs folks around." Florida's Youngblood creates a different kind of havoc. Deceptively fast for his size, he reads screens and swing passes so adroitly that he intimidates quarterbacks by his mere presence...
...Harley Staggers. That Congress seemed to be bowing to the bullying strike threats of Dennis and others worried some legislators. "If we do this," cautioned Senator Gordon Allott, a Colorado Republican, "we are going to be settling wage disputes in every industry in this country that is of sufficient size to have an influence on the national economy...