Word: caped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Christiaan N. Barnard performed the first operation. Though some criticized Barnard for haste, his Cape Town team was experienced in kidney transplants, and included specialists in most, if not all, of the ancillary medical fields...
...matter what the Russians do, the U.S. astronauts should be on their way moonward on or soon after Dec. 21. Colonel Frank Borman and Major William Anders, both Air Force officers, and Navy Captain James Lovell are already at Cape Kennedy, spending 16 hours a day in preparing for every detail of a complex mission that has been planned and plotted to the last second. They spend 20 hours a week in simulators, training their minds and hands to react almost automatically to every conceivable contingency...
...normal maneuvers, the emergency measures that they must follow to correct equipment failures. For at critical points during their trip, a balky rocket could leave them stranded in orbit around the moon or drive them into collision with the lunar surface. By-the time they are fired from Cape Kennedy's launch pad 39A by the world's most powerful rocket, Saturn 5, Borman, Lovell and Anders will be the most thoroughly prepared adventurers ever to have dared the unknown...
...dollar is overvalued." Fowler replied with an extraordinary paean: "Gold is the sun," he said, "and the dollar is the earth. The earth revolves around the sun and the relationship doesn't change." Retorted Schiller: "Then I guess we're all just little satellites launched from Cape Kennedy." After Jenkins and Fowler had characterized the German trade tax concessions as inadequate, Schiller declared, "If the lopping off of one third of our export surplus is not a sacrifice, then it is obvious that we have quite different concepts of social values...
...died in 1938, but two other members of the household were there. They had seen Christmas Memory on TV, and it was not what they had expected. But neither was Truman. The shy, companionless and seemingly unpromising boy whom they remembered was now, at 44, dressed in a Cardin cape-and-cap ensemble, and with him, in a pony-skin suit, was Princess Lee Radziwill...