Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before the Civil Rights Act, the state had desegregated most of its public accommodations. For the first time, Wake Forest College added Negro football players to its freshman team. Western Carolina College boasted a Negro basketball star. Two Ku Klux Klansmen were given stiff jail terms for trying to burn a Negro church. Twenty-one school districts were integrated. More than 240,000 Negroes registered to vote...
Called the Curity Immobil-Air bandage, the device actually consists of two tubes, one inside the other. When it is pulled over a broken or badly burned limb, the inner tube fits loosely. Then, as a first-aider blows into the outer tube, air pressure forces the inner tube tight against the limb and extends it straight. The pneumatic splint prevents further damage from broken bone ends until the victim gets to a hospital. In burns, it prevents the seepage of body fluids-a major cause of burn "shock." And the pressure of the inner tube on the limb, whether...
...pool; it will encourage joint projects and coordinate the transmission, generation and marketing of power. Its first joint project will start shortly, when member companies begin construction of a 750,000-kw. plant near the Arizona-New Mexico-Colorado-Utah boundary known as the four corners. The plant will burn the low-grade coal still buried beneath many a nearby ghost town, but future WEST plants might also use oil, natural gas or, in water-parched Southern California, nuclear reactors that will convert salt water to fresh while they generate electricity. The associates' first president, Dick Walter Reeves...
GIRL WITH GREEN EYES. Rita Tushingham is a young English actress with charm and talent to burn, and in this story of a shopgirl's passion for a middle-aged author (Peter Finch) they give a lovely light...
Luck and ingenuity keep him alive. He stumbles on a cave that gives some shelter and contrives to start a fire with yellow rocks that burn like low-grade coal. On the third day, oxygen gone, he discovers that the rocks release it when they are heated, and in jig time he rigs up a pressure cooker and replenishes his tanks. A few days later, led by the small South American monkey that shared his spaceship, he finds a spring of clear water, and in the water a plant that bears edible tubers...