Word: capes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...checks, he headed for Madrid's annual "Benefit Bullfight," where El Cordobés was scheduled to face two bulls. Betting on first-round knockdowns, Willie collected a bundle. The first bull was so weak that his knees buckled as soon as he spotted the champ's cape. The second was obviously in the tank; he stuck his head in the sand and calmly awaited the knockout. While the oldtime aficionados in the stands whistled El Cordobés out of the ring, Willie stood there happily, waving his big fist full of pesetas and yelling: "Give...
Though a radio message using Scorpion's call sign, "Brandywine," and the discovery of a 250-ft.-long steel hulk in 180 ft. of water off Cape Henry, Va., raised hopes that the missing sub might be found, by week's end she was still silent. The radio signal, Navymen bitterly concluded, had probably been a hoax; the hulk proved to be that of a World...
...from Salinas, Calif., became the second heart-transplant subject for Stanford University's pioneering Dr. Norman E. Shumway Jr. The victim of three heart attacks within seven years, Rizor had been longing for a transplant since he heard of Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard's first operation in Cape Town last December. "At first," says his wife Eileen, "I was shocked by the idea. But time and the knowledge of how desperately my husband wanted the operation made me realize that it might be his only chance to live." When a brain-injured donor, a man of 43, died...
SOMEWHERE on Cape Cod there are Indians who owe their salvation to Harvard...
...Massachusetts Indians since 1716, when the Rev. Dr. Daniel Williams of London left an annuity to Harvard for the "blessed work of converting the Indians." The Corporation still splits the annual balance of the fund (last year $1,530) between the minister of the Indian church at Mashpee on Cape Cod and the Society for Propagating the Gospel at Boston...