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Gupta frequently serves to the same side of the table with a soft back spin, but is able to surprise his opponents many times with very powerful returns. Although not as graceful as Thomas, Gupta moves just as quickly...

Author: By Martin R. Garay iii, | Title: Northeastern Hosts Ping Pong Tourney | 4/11/1970 | See Source »

...warning system to detect pollution. Before their plan is presented at the U.N. World Conference on Environment in 1972, Blair plans to test a prototype station. The system's scope will appear only as a vast number of small details are analyzed. The ability of a spider to spin a web, for example, can be affected by air pollution; mosses, which accumulate lead from the environment, are a good measure of lead pollution. In effect, the system will be analogous to the old practice of placing canaries in coal mines to warn miners of impending lethal concentrations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Advent of Big Biology | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

...Strother Martin and L.Q. Jones) and meets a tasty tart named Hildy (Stella Stevens), who winds up keeping house at his combination water hole and stagecoach stop. He falls in with an itinerant preacher and whoremonger who calls himself the Rev. Joshua Duncan Sloane (David Warner) and who can spin his clerical collar around into layman's garb faster than most men can draw a pistol. Everyone sort of threatens, jokes and loves each other, and gets in each other's way. All in all, pretty unlikely ingredients for an exceptionally fine movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Back-Room Ballad | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

...just existing, we're going to teach you how to live! We're going to get the toxins out of your system, burn off the fat and redistribute the muscle factor. It's gorgeous!" BUTT KICKING. First on your Personalized Toning-Up Program is a spin in the Roman pool. As you bask in the hot, healing waters, a gentleman technician offers cups of dietetic lemonade. Your poolmate, a balding man in his 50s, introduces himself. La Costa tones up such famous figures as Rod Steiger, Ambassador John Lodge, NBC President Julian Goodman. Gore Vidal, Kirk Douglas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: In Search of the New You | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

Anger Uses Energy. Using "lots of spins and changes of pace," Gonzalez won the first set at the service line. "I used to hit aces out of sheer power," he explains. "Now I hit them out of deception." Though he lost the next two sets, he began to establish a pattern: "La-ver's not a very tall fellow and I felt that if I could get my lob going when he came to the net, I could work him pretty hard and penetrate more with a passing shot." In the final two sets the steady punching began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pancho at 41 | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

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