Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better than 500 m.p.h., he seemed almost motionless in space. Just behind him, in twinkling miniature, lay the sweep of San Francisco Bay; ahead, curving gently with the earth, was the hot yellow of Death Valley and the desert wastes beyond. And below, like the riffles in a child's papier-mache relief map, were the grey granite thrusts and the white snow splotches of California's rugged Sierra Nevada range. In this country, pioneers had baked-or frozen-as they struggled westward a century before. Eastbound Dave Steeves was due at his home base in Selma...
Born Nathaniel Coles in Montgomery, Ala., Nat dropped the "s" to accommodate the "King" nickname after a nightclub owner put a golden paper crown on his head. He moved as a child to Chicago, where his father became pastor of the True Light Baptist Church and his mother the choir director. He was pounding out Yes, We Have No Bananas on the piano at the age of five, and at 15 he had his own band. It was a nightclub drunk who launched his singing career by insisting that Pianist Cole sing as well as play Sweet Lorraine. Penniless...
...price: $1,048 and up), which has moved into more than 2,500 American garages this year. The Isetta has two widely spaced front wheels and two narrowly spaced rear wheels, speeds up to 62 m.p.h. on a 13-h.p. motorcycle engine, can accommodate two passengers (and a child), who enter by lifting the flat Plexiglas front...
...healthy woman of 29, then mother of two, presented herself for blood grouping (as a precaution before birth of a third child) at the Essex County Hospital, Colchester, last July. She was found to have 49% type O cells, 51% type A. Her twin brother was called in, found to have 61% type A, 39% type O. Mrs. W.'s husband is type O; so are all three of their children...
Born. To Rita Gam Guinzburg, 29, dark-eyed beauty of TV and screen (The Thief, Saadia), and Thomas Henry Guinzburg, 30, an editor of the Viking Press: a daughter, their first child; in Manhattan. Weight...