Word: adrenaline
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agreement. That night, going to bed at midnight, he hoped for a good sleep. But scarcely an hour later he staggered into the hallway of his villa, clutching his chest. Guards summoned his doctor, who immediately injected a stimulant. A team of Russian physicians rushed to his bedside, shot adrenalin directly into the heart. But nothing helped. At 61, Shastri was dead of a heart attack, his third in six years...
Norton raced six miles barefoot through he fung'e to secure help, after his pistol charged with birdshot, failed to fend on the assailants. In a 4000-mile ham radio lookup with the CRIMSON yesterday Norton said "I had so much adrenalin in me could have run on my head...
...teacher salaries-and spending power -and provide more funds for the textbooks, audio-visual aids and laboratory equipment that already constitute a major part of the $1.7 billion a year school-equipment-and-supply business. Similarly, the $375 million mass-transportation subsidy, conceived to save strangling cities, will pour adrenalin into the economy. Impressed by increasing Government-financed mass-transit spending and anxious to get a chunk of the $8 billion equipment market, U.S. Steel last week introduced a new steel and glass car that can be adapted to both bus chassis and rails. Bigger Bites. There is, of course...
Never a Tamer. Near misses kept audience adrenalin pumping too. Several times when the circus lights failed, Beatty had to grope his way to safety from a cage full of roaring animals. Once in Cleveland, three of his "kitties" broke loose, terrified the crowd for long, anxious minutes before Beatty finally maneuvered them back into cages. The tensions of such a life forced him to get a nightly ten hours of sleep, sweated a pound off him at every 18-minute performance, and earned him wildly varying sums of money. The Ringling Brothers Circus was paying him only...
...Pumped Up. Only once in the 18 wondrous holes that followed did Jack fail to hit a green in regulation figures. Five times, by his own estimate checked against a detailed chart of the course that he kept in his back pocket, he drove 350 yds. or more. "My adrenalin is running strong," Nicklaus beamed. "I'm all pumped up inside." The longest club he used for a second shot all day-even on the four par-five holes-was a No. 3 iron. And his putting? On the second hole, Jack rolled in a 22-footer...