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106754_0 | Special Today: Education Life/Section 12 | LEAD: Special reports in this issue include: Special reports in this issue include: * How the need for credentials is bringing more adults back to college. * Where government executives go for a mid-life crisis course. * Why many students delay college for a 13th-year hiatus. * How colleges are coping with a severe hou... |
106769_21 | CHICAGO'S GRUMPY GURU | successor, the Nobel laureate George J. Stigler, presides over it now. There have been Chicago schools of sociology and Chicago Aristotelians. ''The Closing of the American Mind'' is only the latest manifestation of a trend. It reflects a fierce iconoclasm, a resistance to prevailing liberal ideology, that life in Chic... |
106528_2 | NORTHEAST JOURNAL | the same effect as ''throwing gasoline on a hot fire or rubbing salt in a festering wound.'' Chief Mears suggested a less inflammatory send-off, like ''Hope you don't see me again,'' or ''Sorry, better luck next time.'' ''Almost anything will do,'' he said, ''except 'Have a nice day.' ''I hope these positive suggestion... |
106690_3 | The Baby-Boomers Change Courses | from these new students, whose careers and schedules may preclude regular commuting to campus. 'There's a Redefining Taking Place' ''There's a redefining taking place of who is and can be a college student,'' said Jay Hershenson, vice chancellor for university relations at the City University of New York, which has 250... |
114789_10 | The Spell of the Rain Forest | city) can sample the rain forest by walking a few blocks from the central city Post Office. At Brisbane's Expo 88, in what must be the most extraordinary feat of high-tech forestry ever, an area the size of a football field will be actual forest, complete with ground mists, daily rain, 2,000 orchids and hundreds of bir... |
114401_1 | TOUGHER RULES ARE URGED AT FIRST RECYCLING HEARING | we're seeing is an excellent start, but I think there are some real tough problems to deal with,'' Mr. Beisiegel told the meeting, held at the New London Cooperative Extension Station in Norwich last Monday. Mr. Beisiegel said he would like to see plastic-foam containers, typically used at fast-food restaurants, banned... |
114385_0 | Q and A | LEAD: Empty Apartments Empty Apartments Question: Is it true that landlords of rent-stabilized apartment buildings cannot increase individual apartment rents when leases expire if 10 percent or more of the building's units have been kept vacant? . . . G. P., Manhattan Answer: No. The fact that an owner has withheld apa... |
114766_2 | Safety Issues Test Europe's Faith in Nuclear Power | 1978. Last week, the Public Service Company of New Hampshire, whose embattled Seabrook nuclear plant has stood as a symbol of the environmental opposition to the American nuclear industry, filed for bankruptcy. A Continuing Commitment Despite their own extensive environmental movement, many European countries, lacking ... |
114515_4 | WAR, DISEASE, SLAVERY AND POISONED WELLS | protect the Indians from the diseases - smallpox, influenza and malaria - that arrived with the white man and repeatedly decimated their communities. One justification given by the Portuguese Government for expelling the Jesuits was to ''free'' the Indians from authoritarian control. Once they were gone, however, the r... |
114521_1 | READING THE FRIENDLY SKIES | to interpret it. The messages that resulted were as diverse as the rules that created them were elaborate. They might predict the life and fate of an individual, a city or a state; they might simply define auspicious times to start a building, pick a medicinal plant or invest money. In all periods astrologers found att... |
114396_3 | SATELLITE MAP CENTER PLANNED | paper. The final images resemble aerial photographs, but are created, manipulated and modified with less effort, time and cost. An aerial survey of the state made by airplane, for example, would require 250 individual photographs, pieced together manually, a year of toil and $225,000. The same job can be done by satell... |
114513_0 | LEFISTS IN LOVE | LEAD: THE BOOK AND THE BROTHERHOOD By Iris Murdoch. 607 pp. New York: Viking. $19.95. THE BOOK AND THE BROTHERHOOD By Iris Murdoch. 607 pp. New York: Viking. $19.95. LET us not burden Iris Murdoch's ineffable new novel with the fact that it is her 23d, nor with a reaffirmation of her absolutely unique place in the tott... |
108226_0 | NEW INVENTIONS FROM THE CORNFIELD | LEAD: OF all the Christmas gifts exchanged on Capitol Hill last month, few attracted more interest than the biodegradable plastic bags Senator Tom Harkin included in the baskets of Iowa farm products that he delivered to colleagues. The bags, which are designed to decompose after a year or two, are at the head of a gro... |
108440_0 | THE PRIVATE PAIN OF INFERTILITY | LEAD: My recollections as an obstetrics-gynecology practitioner in the early 1970's, at the time the Dalkon Shield was marketed, may be of interest. Patients who had been on the pill were so persuaded by articles in feminist magazines extolling the virtues of the shield that they would demand the shield and threaten to... |
108432_0 | Evoking the Amazon | LEAD: BLOWGUNS, FEATHER ORNAMENTS, shrunken heads: artifacts from past and present cultures of Amazonia, the tropical rain forest area of northern South America, are being assembled in the Hall of South American Peoples, which New York's Museum of Natural History is to open in October. Complementing an exhibit of Andea... |
108130_6 | ON POWER AND HISTORY: WHAT MARGUERITE YOURCENAR KNEW | destiny of ruling the world and to warn him of some of his predecessor's errors. The eloquence and splendor of the style are in keeping with what the imperial philosopher might have written himself, and the supposed monograph is not interrupted by unlikely recollected dialogues or dramatically re-enacted episodes. One ... |
108153_1 | WHAT CRITICS HAVE DONE, AND HOW WELL | Porter is perfectly faithful to Mr. Todorov's style and intention, as were her translations of ''Theories of the Symbol'' and ''Symbolism and Interpretation,'' the two previous volumes in the trilogy of which this is the final part. This said, ''Literature and Its Theorists'' is now at our disposal and we can begin, al... |
108116_3 | THE RIGHT GIFTS TO TAKE ABROAD | good Japanese manners dictated - held up and scrutinized and admired my loving-hands-from-home packaging before unveiling the contents. On my return to the United States, newly aware of the many constraints, I looked for a token of appreciation for a Japanese woman who had been kind to me. I thought a designer scarf Gi... |
108403_1 | Shopping for Study Programs | a summer camp a year in advance. With a trip overseas, a lot depends upon trust and reputation. And reputation is not an easy matter, since there may be three or four layers at the top of a program before you reach the company that actually charters an airplane or bus. In the last couple of years at least, there has be... |
111807_1 | Sugar Traders Are Betting On Long-Term Price Rise | five years, again rolled forward positions yesterday in expectation of still higher prices later this year and next. Traders in world sugar futures, which are at their highest price level in five years, again rolled forward positions yesterday in expectation of still higher prices later this year and next. Domestic sug... |
113596_0 | DEFENDANT GUILTY IN BOMB SMUGGLING | LEAD: One of three Lebanese-born Canadian citizens accused of smuggling a bomb into the United States has pleaded guilty in Federal District Court here to two charges in connection with the incident. One of three Lebanese-born Canadian citizens accused of smuggling a bomb into the United States has pleaded guilty in Fe... |
113656_0 | 11 HELD AS RIGHTS PROTEST HALTS LA GUARDIA TRAFFIC | LEAD: Eleven people were arrested at La Guardia Airport and scores of departing passengers were delayed yesterday evening when about 60 people protesting racial injustice in New York City blocked traffic lanes outside a terminal building. Eleven people were arrested at La Guardia Airport and scores of departing passeng... |
113034_4 | 'Chemical Clamps' May Eliminate Some Surgery | an old man with an enormous tongue. The man had a pituitary tumor that oversecreted growth hormone. As a consequence, his tongue grew so large that it would hang out of his mouth and plug his nose when he tried to sleep. The standard treatment is to shrink the tumor with X-rays, but it takes months or years to work, Dr... |
109318_1 | Growing Older: A Call for Self-Determination for Women | of its predecessor: Knowledge and control of one's body is fundamental, and women must seize their right to determine how they live as they age. Just as the earlier book emphasized pregnancy as a healthy process rather than an illness, the new book treats menopause as a natural stage of life. ''We've attempted to demys... |
109288_2 | Lighthearted Classics Evoke Epochs Ancient and Archetypal | is interested in ancient civilizations. ''The Greeks were the great originators; the Romans, the great imitators. And ironically, today we've been compared to the Romans, a civilization on the decline.'' ''I see this new interest in antiquity as a reaction against minimalism,'' said Michael Ward, a Manhattan dealer in ... |
107621_1 | '87 Spending Law Contained Benefit for Sugar Producers | at least twice the world market price. The protection, combined with an influx of corn-based sugar, has also hurt companies that refine raw cane sugar. These refineries are operating at about 50 percent of capacity. Although Congress passed the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act of 1983 to help countries of that reg... |
107461_1 | PARENT & CHILD | is a normal pattern that may be repeated several times during the first 10 years of life. There's nothing you can do to prevent it. It doesn't mean you're a bad parent. What should you do when your 3-year-old rejects you? First, don't do anything dramatic. Keep in mind that children are not miniature adults. ''A child ... |
110881_0 | A Nutrasweet Product Is Due | LEAD: The Nutrasweet Company is planning to announce the development of a fat substitute that could reduce calories and cholesterol in many foods, according to a report published in Crain's Chicago Business, a weekly publication. The company declined to comment, but a spokesman said Nutrasweet had scheduled a news conf... |
109068_3 | Chicago Journal; Poverty Kills a Church That Disaster Couldn't | the church, had long pumped vast sums of money into the parish. Six years ago, when demolition of the building was under study, an anonymous donor described as a wealthy businessman on the Board of Trade stepped forward and promised to meet the costs of refurbishing. But disagreements ensued between the donor and the c... |
111563_2 | Arms and Allies: NATO A-Arsenal Cuts Disputed | war imaginable. In Bonn this week, Eduard A. Shevardnadze, the Soviet Foreign Minister, called for the elimination of such missiles, which have a range of less than 300 miles. But the Soviet envoy quickly added that this ''zero option'' could not be concluded ''except with the participation of other nuclear states.'' T... |
111560_2 | U.S. Ends Curb On Photographs From Satellites | foreign-operated civil or commercial systems.'' Details of the new policy are classified as secret. A senior White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity, added, ''The 10-meter limit is no longer there. We will use whatever factors are needed to be competitive.'' Continuation of Security Experts outside the... |
111436_1 | Alternative Therapies for Fighting Osteoporosis | current therapy involves administration of estrogen. While highly effective in stemming bone loss, estrogen slightly increases the risk of uterine cancer in some women. The value of exercise to bones has been indicated in a variety of previous studies. People who are physically active, even into old age, tend to have d... |
111466_1 | Youths Finding Success Elusive Without College | their education with high school, with or without diplomas. The report contended that Americans without advanced education are being shut out of an economy that increasingly demands specialized skills that are learned in college. At the same time, stable, well-paying jobs that do not generally require a college educati... |
108615_1 | Why New Delhi's Plans Just Don't Work | results so far. Population continues to grow by an estimated 2.1 percent a year, only slightly below the level of the 1970's. At this rate, India, which is estimated to have 780 million people today, is expected to exceed one billion around the turn of the century and begin closing the gap with China, which already has... |
114050_0 | WHERE BIRTHS ARE KEPT DOWN AND WOMEN AREN'T | LEAD: For thousands of years, this small coastal area of southern India has fancied itself as a world apart, separated from the rest of the subcontinent by mountains and influenced by spice traders, missionaries and other foreign visitors. For thousands of years, this small coastal area of southern India has fancied it... |
113995_0 | Sugar Prices Fall Sharply In Advance of New Report | LEAD: World sugar futures prices broke a monthlong upward trend and plunged below 10 cents a pound yesterday on indications that a tight supply situation was easing, analysts said. World sugar futures prices broke a monthlong upward trend and plunged below 10 cents a pound yesterday on indications that a tight supply s... |
112143_0 | HOWARD BEACH DEFENDANT GIVEN MAXIMUM TERM OF 10 TO 30 YEARS | LEAD: One of three white teen-agers convicted of manslaughter and assault for attacking three black men in Howard Beach, Queens, was sentenced yesterday to the maximum of 10 to 30 years in prison by a judge who denounced him for the ''hatred'' and ''savageness'' shown by his actions. One of three white teen-agers convi... |
112171_0 | Transactions | LEAD: BASEBALL BASEBALL ST. LOUIS (NL) - Reached terms with Bob Forsch, pitcher, on a one-year contract. MINNEAPOLIS (AL) - Signed Greg Gagne, shortstop, to a one-year contract. KANSAS CITY (AL) - Signed Luis Aquino, pitcher; Jose DeJesus, pitcher; Rick Anderson, pitcher; Bill Pecota, infielder, and Joe Citari, first b... |
112047_0 | Sugar Prices Reach a High As Brazil Assesses Drought | LEAD: Drought in Brazil's sugar-growing regions sent prices of sugar futures to life-of-contract highs yesterday on the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange. Drought in Brazil's sugar-growing regions sent prices of sugar futures to life-of-contract highs yesterday on the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange. In heavy trading, ... |
112019_4 | Flying for Less: The Search for a Seat at the Best Possible Fare | it is too early to judge the latest promotions. #60 Pages of Guidelines The National Association of Attorneys General, which has been dissatisfied with the level of Federal law enforcement, unanimously adopted 60 pages of enforcement guidelines that interpret state laws on deceptive advertising with regard to the airli... |
106295_0 | For a Hudson Greenway | LEAD: The extraordinary cultural, historical and environmental values of the Hudson River Valley are under siege. The extraordinary cultural, historical and environmental values of the Hudson River Valley are under siege. From the George Washington Bridge to the Troy dam, the landscape is being chopped and built upon w... |
106301_0 | Guidepost; LUGGAGE ON BOARD | LEAD: The Federal Aviation Administration has ruled that air carriers must enforce limits on carry-on luggage on domestic and international flights beginning Jan. 1. The Federal Aviation Administration has ruled that air carriers must enforce limits on carry-on luggage on domestic and international flights beginning Ja... |
112691_0 | Airport X-Rays | LEAD: To the Editor: As a documentary filmmaker who longs for the easy, good ol' days when you could just walk from car to plane with your film in your carry-on bag, I might be of some help to the travelers who complain that their trip was ruined by some security officer in Austria or Hong Kong. To the Editor: As a doc... |
112449_2 | HELPING CHILDREN TO FAIL | of us disabled by technical language, the book is admirably easy to read. Beginning with a look at the history and rise of the ''LD'' profession, the author then summarizes, in the main text and in 75 pages of notes, a large body of research, work commonly found in books written and used by the profession itself. ''Def... |
112527_0 | RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS GET U.S. AID ABROAD | LEAD: The United States has funneled tens of millions of dollars to religious-affiliated schools and hospitals around the world under a little-known program administered by the Agency for International Development, The program, American Schools and Hospitals Abroad, has since 1971 quietly financed Jewish, Catholic and ... |
109863_4 | U.S. TRADE DEFICIT NARROWS SHARPLY AS EXPORTS SURGE | exports of agricultural commodities and nonmonetary gold. Imports fell $2.4 billion, or 6 percent, to $37 billion, the department said. Manufactured goods, petroleum products, agricultural commodities and gold accounted for most of the decline. Unlike exports, which bucked seasonal influences, imports were aided by the... |
108929_0 | Genetic Testing Limits Rejected in New Jersey | LEAD: A bill that sought to establish the nation's first state commission to review and regulate products of genetic engineering was defeated here tonight by the state Assembly. With 41 votes needed for passage, the bill attracted only 26 votes. A bill that sought to establish the nation's first state commission to rev... |
110624_0 | In Philosophy's Turf Wars, They Hurl Syllogisms | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Your Dec. 29 front-page article on the rift among professional philosophers misses nearly all the interesting and important aspects of this upheaval. The source of the conflict is only marginally the difference between analytic and nonanalytic approaches. And Prof. Ruth Barcan Marcus... |
110477_3 | BOOKS OF THE TIMES | ''Even at its best,'' Mr. Stone writes, ''the Socratic negative dialectic provided an irrelevant standard by which to judge the competence of statesmen, tragic poets, or shoemakers in their respective crafts. Above all, it was no way to question the right of common men to participate in the government of their own live... |
110521_0 | Biotechnology Lags Despite Success | LEAD: Amid the national uproar over whether to release living, genetically altered bacteria into the environment, one vital development seems to have gone virtually unnoticed: a biotechnology experiment that began last year in California seems to have worked. Amid the national uproar over whether to release living, gen... |
110629_1 | In Philosophy's Turf Wars, They Hurl Syllogisms; Journey of the Mind | writers, critics, anthropologists, historians, political economists and professors of art, English and French. This is not a complaint or a criticism, just an informed conjecture. Let us understand the transition and live it gracefully. The transition itself should not come as a surprise. It can be traced to the German... |
111323_0 | Rock: Tom Russell Band | LEAD: SUNDAY'S double bill at the Lone Star, featuring two Rounder Record acts, the Tom Russell Band and Bar-rence Whitfield and the Savages, was a study in the way music functions. Both bands, neither especially dis-tinctive, pump out American dance music. But they fill basic social needs, and by attacking different g... |
111109_0 | Sugar Prices at 4-Year High On Philippine Storm News | LEAD: The price of world sugar futures soared to more than 10 cents a pound yesterday for the first time in more than four years. Analysts cited fears that a storm had further damaged the Philippines' already battered sugar cane crop. The price of world sugar futures soared to more than 10 cents a pound yesterday for t... |
107239_6 | A Vital Shadow Society: East Bloc Breadwinner | generous new incentives for larger families. Life expectancy has dropped in some of the six countries - for example, in Hungary, from an average 67 to under 65 - and families are feeling the pressure resulting from parents who hold two and sometimes three jobs apiece. In these countries, where food, health, education, ... |
113284_0 | BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY: Advances; Junk Food That's Lean And Healthy? | LEAD: THE strategic thinkers at food companies have long coveted the potentially enormous markets that would be created if a low-cholesterol, low-calorie fat substitute could be developed for use in such things as ice cream, french fries, chocolate doughnuts and potato chips. THE strategic thinkers at food companies ha... |
113251_1 | Report Shows 12% Rise in Anti-Semitic Incidents | harassment, threats and assaults against Jews and Jewish property. Historically, incidents of vandalism have largely outnumbered harassments, threats and assaults and that was the case last year. The number of incidents of vandalism last year was 694, ranging from swastika daubings to arson and pipe bombings. This was ... |
113396_0 | Staring at Monsters | LEAD: In a world that changes faster than the eye blinks, it is reassuring to hear from Tass, the Soviet news agency, that there's an abominable snowman, or yeti, living near the Afghanistan border. This one paid several evening visits to the camp of four researchers from Kiev, stared at them for awhile, then disappear... |
109546_2 | BOOKS OF THE TIMES | and Mr. Stoehr tells his story well. One's only doubt about according him so much prominence is that he doesn't seem to have been an altogether representative figure. Or rather, he was representative of the lower levels of pseudo-science - and there were other, more respectable levels. Hydropathy, for example, probably... |
153059_7 | U.S. Secretly Grows Coca to Find Way to Destroy Cocaine's Source | actual conditions in Peru.'' The State Department said that Lilly had been intimidated by the possibility that drug lords might carry out reprisals against company employees or operations in South America. However, some drug policy experts suggested that the company was at least equally concerned about assuming liabili... |
153288_2 | A New Breed of Corporate Skipper | the helms of their own large yachts. These were latter-day swashbucklers who prized the physical encounter with wind and sea. At the time, ocean racing featured point-to-point contests: Newport-Bermuda, Los Angeles-Honolulu, Sydney-Hobart. When this scenario finally peaked in the 1950's, the list of owner/skippers for ... |
153135_2 | THE NEW CALIFORNIAN DREAM: CLOSING THE DOOR | 26 California cities and counties cast their ballots on referendums involving growth policy and regulation. Seven of the 13 slow growth measures passed; only three of the 13 progrowth measures did. Even Orange County, the conservative bastion south of Los Angeles where developers have long reigned, hotly debated Propos... |
153007_0 | End Bias on Hiring From State Schools | LEAD: The May 15 Long Island Interview with Donald Blinken, chairman of the board of trustees of the State University of New York, was a welcome boost for public higher education. The May 15 Long Island Interview with Donald Blinken, chairman of the board of trustees of the State University of New York, was a welcome b... |
153283_3 | AN M.B.A. RUNS THE GANTLET | of signing on as a graduate student last year, I started looking for a summer job in finance. It was a dress rehearsal for 1988, and it soon revealed a basic problem. I was competing for a job against people who had real quantitative, number-crunching skills that I lacked. My first interview was with an investment bank... |
153407_0 | The Church Rejected Priestesses | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Sister Camille D'Arienzo in ''When Will Rome Let Women Be Priests?'' (letter, May 12), a brief for the ordination of women, shows how feminist theology is irreconcilable with Roman Catholic belief. Sister Camille maintains that there is no ''scriptural impediment'' to the ordination ... |
153032_2 | BIOTECHNOLOGY'S CASH COW | of scientific talent and financial capital never before seen in the development of a new animal drug. Along with Monsanto in St. Louis, Upjohn in Kalamazoo, Mich., and Eli Lilly in Indianapolis, Cyanamid - an 81-year-old chemical concern that gained almost a quarter of its $4.2 billion in worldwide revenues last year f... |
153293_5 | Chernobyl and the Europeans: Radiation and Doubts Linger | Chernobyl disaster was used as a chief issue in the opposition campaign for a referendum last November in which 70 percent of voters cast ballots for restrictions on nuclear energy. That prompted then-Prime Minister Giovanni Goria to declare a moratorium on nuclear power. The decision precipitated his downfall last Mar... |
153171_4 | HOW TO READ A BOOK | stars and constellations - dim or bright but always remote. This, however, takes a hell of a lot of time, and you may easily find yourself old and gray, heading for the exit with a lousy volume under your arm. Another alternative - or perhaps just a part of the same - is to rely on hearsay; a friend's advice, a referen... |
151755_0 | Superiors Refuse to Dismiss Nuns in Abortion Ad Case | LEAD: In an apparent victory for advocates of dissent within the Roman Catholic Church, an international order of nuns announced today that it had decided not to dismiss two American nuns who signed a newspaper advertisement supporting the right of Catholics to oppose the church's ban on abortion. In an apparent victor... |
151694_0 | GLOBAL BRIEFS | LEAD: * Saudi Arabia posted a $2.56 billion trade surplus last year, up from a $360,000 surplus in 1986, the Finance Ministry said. The Saudis have mounted a major effort to diversify their oil-dependent economy, developing agricultural products for export as well as for domestic consumption. Exports totaled $22.56 bil... |
154005_0 | Dublin Journal; Calling London Urgently! (for Abortion Advice) | LEAD: Irishwomen lately are finding a critical telephone number scribbled on the walls of public restrooms, as if the need for abortion counseling were to be considered a scrofulous underworld indulgence. Irishwomen lately are finding a critical telephone number scribbled on the walls of public restrooms, as if the nee... |
157016_0 | Paris Plans 1998 Referendum for New Caledonia | LEAD: The French Government announced today that it would organize a referendum on self-determination for New Caledonia in 10 years and offer an immediate plan of economic improvement for the Pacific colony. The French Government announced today that it would organize a referendum on self-determination for New Caledoni... |
156076_0 | Civil Service Restraints Are Needed in School Building | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: ''Spring Offensive for City Schools'' (editorial, June 1) suggests that to transfer civil service protection and limited contracting authority to a new school-construction agency would hamper New York City's Board of Education in its proposed massive building program. I strongly disa... |
156139_0 | Company News; New Delco Plant | LEAD: The General Motors Corporation's Delco Products division announced plans to build an 82,000-square-foot plant that would use high technology and new management techniques to make struts for small front-wheel-drive cars in this Dayton suburb. Production is scheduled to begin next year with 60 people, expanding to ... |
156049_0 | Civil Service Restraints Are Needed in School Building Program; Tots in the Classroom | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: We object to the waiver to be given to the Board of Education in the newly proposed Board of Health Code. The waiver, in article 47.17 F, expands on an earlier waiver, which is being litigated, that would permit prekindergarten classes for 4-year-olds and kindergarten classes for 5-y... |
157600_1 | Brazil Parley Aims to Save Rain Forests | the spread of farming and the collection of wood for fuel, forests in many tropical regions are dwindling rapidly, at a rate of nearly 30 million acres a year. Experts say this is causing shortages of valuable timber and environmental problems like soil erosion and the extinction of plant and animal species. Widespread... |
157881_2 | Rains Cause Crop Prices To Plummet | Thursday or each trading day thereafter in July until the notices are posted each morning,'' Mr. Leslie noted. ''Our estimate for first notice day is that some 4 million bushels of wheat and 10 million each of corn and beans will be delivered on Thursday.'' But the big question, he continued, is not how much soybeans o... |
157845_0 | Hood River Journal; Lure of a Wild Wind Revives a Region's Economy | LEAD: At home they may be lawyers, architects or homeowners, but here in the Columbia River Gorge they are boardheads. To a true boardhead, heaven is a 30-mile-an-hour wind. This month heaven is at its peak. At home they may be lawyers, architects or homeowners, but here in the Columbia River Gorge they are boardheads.... |
152222_3 | Report Sees Countermoves By Soviets on Missile Shield | against missiles would work under real operating conditions. Despite these relatively pessimistic findings, the Office of Technology Assessment did not make any absolute recommendations. And its report conceded that given enough money and a fast enough pace of research, the type of first-phase system projected by the R... |
150573_2 | Study Finds Rate of Abortion Is High Among U.S. Women | Forrest said, adding that the more contraceptive choices there are, the more likely it is that people will find methods they will use consistently. ''No one method suits everyone or suits any one person throughout their life,'' she said. ''There are women who can't use oral contraceptives and there are women who can't ... |
150579_0 | INDIA'S POPULATION TOPS 800 MILLION | LEAD: India's population has reached more than 800 million, and top Government officials say they are alarmed by the failure to bring a sharp drop in the nation's birth rate. India's population has reached more than 800 million, and top Government officials say they are alarmed by the failure to bring a sharp drop in t... |
151312_3 | Pope Also Warms to New Climate in the East | asked to grant the Polish church a clear legal status, making it easier for it to do things like open bank accounts, receive donations and form lay organizations. Most of the details have been worked out, according to Vatican officials, but the labor troubles last month, which increased the Government's unpopularity, m... |
151359_1 | Pregnant Women's Use Of VDT's Is Scrutinized | on substantial numbers of pregnant VDT operators to show a statistically significant increase of miscarriages among those who use the terminals more than 20 hours a week. The researchers, whose findings appear in the June issue of The American Journal of Industrial Medicine, said that larger, more elaborate studies wer... |
151187_1 | How California Does It | the future to their competitors. Although the majority of companies have located in the large urban areas, like Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay area, there has also been significant investment in the smaller urban areas in the center of the state and in the rural areas. One Japanese company is investing $45 milli... |
151380_4 | Rights Measure Disturbs Hopes for Soviet Trade | Eighteen members of Congress and three representatives of the executive branch sit on a commission that monitors Soviet human rights progress. An official of this Helsinki Commission, who asked to remain anonmyous, said there was a consensus among members that substantial compliance would include the release of politic... |
154268_0 | Video Terminals and Health: A Reawakening of Concern | LEAD: After years of relative quiet, the possible health effects of video display terminals have again become a public issue, fueled by a new scientific study and a new law on Long Island. These appear against an unsettled scentific backdrop in which some dangers are discounted but others are still open to question. Af... |
156293_5 | Global Warming Has Begun, Expert Tells Senate | Hansen said at the hearing today, adding, ''It is already happening now.'' Dr. Syukuro Manabe of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration testified today that a number of factors, including an earlier snowmelt each year because of higher temperatures and a rain be... |
153738_0 | China Given Loan By World Bank | LEAD: The World Bank announced today that it had approved a $231.9 million interest-free loan to China for road-improvement and tree-harvesting projects. Road-improvement projects in Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces will be aided by a $175 million loan, the bank said. The World Bank announced today that it had approved a ... |
156850_1 | The Industrialized World Shows Its Love for the Farm | over the years have come to resemble both a perpetual motion machine and an absurdly complex Rube Goldberg contrivance, generate the costly stockpiles of corn, wheat, soybeans, rice, butter, milk and other commodities that are disrupting world markets. The drought that is now searing the American farm belt has taken so... |
156751_0 | Italy Reclaims Its Treasures From the Past | LEAD: POSTERITY MAY SEE THE YEAR 1988 as one in which there was at last a turn for the better in the long and grim story of Italy's irresponsibility toward her patrimony. As a repository of great art and a living museum of great architecture, Italy has few rivals, past or present. But also, and above all since World Wa... |
156564_3 | Why Pressure The Graduate? | to the siren song of the job search. Even if one's faith that one is in college to learn has not been shaken, the intrusive presence of corporate recruiters holding their tense preliminary recruitment meetings at breakfast in the college dining commons, the ubiquitous interview suit, the flurry of rumors of job offers ... |
156912_0 | Practical Traveler; How Airlines Pick the Movies | LEAD: GUESS who's having a European film festival? Swissair, among other institutions. While one wouldn't switch to a Swissair flight just to catch up with ''My Life as a Dog'' or ''Au Revoir, Les Enfants,'' the festival may be an attraction to passengers suffering fatigue from ''Three Men and a Baby.'' GUESS who's hav... |
151900_2 | Careers; Math Majors Find a Wide Choice of Jobs | a hot subject,'' he said. ''We haven't lost much to physics in the number of majors. We're not losing majors to engineering.'' One reason, perhaps, is that companies often hire engineers simply as engineers without regarding them as potential managerial talent. This has frustrated many engineers who want to move up to ... |
152025_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | asked the Japanese to expand their foreign-aid program. A5 The African National Congress has become radicalized because of SouthAfrica's state of emergency, which has strengthened the position of hard-liners in the exiled anti-apartheid organization. A8 Blacks in South Africa protested a Government crackdown on anti-ap... |
151876_0 | Finding a Job for the Significant Other | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: ''Practice Nepotism, but Affirmatively'' by Judith Martin and Gunther Stent (Op-Ed, May 19) was disappointing in that, after presenting a number of arguments why one should not encourage dual-career hiring, they then recommend that universities follow a ''policy of affirmative nepoti... |
152043_0 | Review/Music; Greek Chorale Presents Premieres and Tradition | LEAD: George Tsontakis led his Metropolitan Greek Chorale in three recent works on Greek themes, and a good deal of traditional Greek music - sacred and secular, unadorned and lavishly arranged - on Sunday evening at Merkin Concert Hall. The contemporary scores were the program's focal points; yet the traditional selec... |
151930_0 | Airlines Improve On-Time Rates | LEAD: The airlines had their best on-time performance and least number of consumer complaints to the Government in the latest aviation consumer statistics, the Transportation Department announced today. The airlines had their best on-time performance and least number of consumer complaints to the Government in the late... |
155045_2 | For College Students, the Grass May Be Greener at Home | alike have a pivotal stake in helping to retain the talent and energy that come with youth - the fountain of our future. A certain percentage of college-bound students will always migrate elsewhere. We are a small and wealthy state. Teen-agers want to get away from home and many parents have the means to help them. Stu... |
155014_2 | Archaic Smiles Have Persisted For 2,000 Years | pervasive images in this exhibition of Greek and Etruscan art, and are among the best proof of the break with Egyptian formality. A Gorgon's viciousness is tempered to giddiness by its toothy grin on a fifth-century terra-cotta roof ornament. Stifled laughter swells the cheeks and widens the eyes on a fragment of a nos... |
155205_7 | The Niagara Roars On With New Twists | span that links Canada and the United States. A walk (10 cents) across the bridge to parkland in Canada is a good way to get a view of the river and the falls. Unlike the natural parkland in the United States, the park on the Canadian side is of British descent: manicured shrubs, cultivated flower beds and splashing fo... |
155163_0 | IN SHORT: FICTION | LEAD: AT THE PALACES OF KNOSSOS. By Nikos Kazantzakis. Translated by Themi Vasils and Theodora Vasils. (Ohio University, Cloth, $19.95; Paper, $9.95.) One cannot know what Nikos Kazantzakis would have thought of this posthumously edited version of a novel he wrote in the late 1930's for serialization in an Athenian you... |
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