Word: caped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...1950s, when Onassis began building supertankers, which later grew to 250,000 tons, he was told that they would never pay because they could not negotiate the Suez Canal. When Nasser closed the canal in 1956, Onassis made more millions with his swift hauls around the Cape...
...daily 7-min. to 11-min. Wally, Walt and Donn Show, as it was nicknamed, was scheduled once each morning during a 2,000-mile Apollo pass between Corpus Christi, Texas, and Cape Kennedy, the only two ground stations equipped to pick up the transmissions. The astronauts held up crudely lettered signs that read "Hello from the lovely Apollo Room, high atop everything" and "Deke Slayton, are you a turtle?" In accordance with a bar room tradition that has been adopted by the astronauts, Slayton was required to answer "You bet your sweet ass I am" -or pay the penalty...
...Mexicans were dazzling in white. There were green-gowned Nigerians and Australian girls in yellow dresses; the Americans wore red blazers and the Russians chose blue. The Japanese were decked out in uniforms of cerise and white, and there was a magnificent Mongolian flag-bearer in red loincloth, salmon cape, fur hat and leather knee boots...
...impressive 1,200 hours in preparing for their mission. They have had an unexpectedly long time to practice; this week's flight, scheduled for February 1967, was postponed after Astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee died in a spacecraft fire during an Apollo ground test at Cape Kennedy...
Blood Exchange. With all this in mind, the South Africans confronted the case of Mrs. Mary Voogt, a 29-year-old nurse and mother of two children who was brought to Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital last July in a deep coma. Only a few days before, she had suffered a miscarriage. Early in her pregnancy, she had contracted severe hepatitis, and it left her liver badly damaged. Doctors tried seven blood exchanges, giving her body an entirely new supply of blood each time. Yet there was no noticeable improvement, and finally they turned in desperation...