Word: 70s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finally made it: Phil Rising, 41, an English watchmaker, and Abdel Latis Abou Heif, 22, an Egyptian student. Next day Ned Barnie, 54, a science teacher in Edinburgh, became the fourth man in history to swim the Channel in both directions. ¶ Lloyd Prest is a hot (mid 70s) golfer in southern Australia; Mick O'Donnell shoots in the high 90s. Over a drink, Prest bet he could beat O'Donnell using a pickax handle. He did, 95-107. ¶ In the National League, Outfielder Clyde Vollmer was no great shakes as a hitter. Waived into the American...
...important Pacific Plans Division, given sea duty once more as commander of Cruiser Division 6 during the assault on Saipan, the landings at Guam, Peleliu, Leyte and Lingayen Gulf. A blue-water man (Annapolis, class of 1916), he is a crack ordnance expert, a good golfer (low 70s). He is married, has a daughter and two sons, each a lieutenant, one Army, one Navy...
Family Background: His father, General Arthur MacArthur, was a Civil War colonel ("the Boy Colonel of the West") who earned a Congressional Medal, became an Indian fighter in the '70s, a hero of the Spanish-American war, and Military Governor of the Philippines. He died dramatically of a heart attack while addressing a reunion of his old regiment in Milwaukee in 1912. Douglas MacArthur grew up at a succession of Army posts and, as a child at Fort Little Rock, was almost killed by an arrow during the last of the western Indian uprisings...
...Johnny recovers fully, she will star in medical history. The Nazis, who chilled men & women deliberately, found that their victims died when their temperatures had fallen into the 80s and 70s. For some unknown reason, Johnny's heart managed to keep beating slowly. If her frozen limbs escape amputation, it may be because they were frozen quickly by Chicago's fierce cold. When tissues freeze slowly, large ice crystals form in the cells and kill them by puncturing their walls. In quick-frozen tissues (as in quick-frozen foods), the crystals do not get large enough...
Richard Strauss had finished his Capriccio in 1942. In his 70s, the once-lurid old composer had turned headily intellectual. The basis of his last operatic plot was an argument that had long fascinated him: Which should come first, words or music? With Friend Clemens Krauss, conductor of the Munich Opera, writing the libretto, Strauss had set about transferring the argument to the stage...