Word: colombo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bayne had transfusions totaling 14 pints in Bombay, but remained in a coma. To make sure of an adequate supply of hepatitis-free blood from fellow volunteers, the Peace Corps chartered a plane and flew Bayne to Colombo, Ceylon, where the hospital ship Hope was anchored. Aboard the Hope, after more transfusions, Bayne emerged from his coma and began a slow but so far steady recovery. Last week, back home in Claremont, he felt strong enough to begin walking again. He can expect to be completely recovered in about three months. All he can remember of his brush with death...
...preparation, said Vatican sources, Paul relied heavily on the advice of three exceptionally conservative prelates of the Roman Curia: Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, 77, the retired former chief of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith; Paris-born Archbishop Paul Phillipe, secretary of the congregation; and Bishop Carlo Colombo of Milan, Paul's personal theological adviser...
Rome's Joe Colombo carries out the same principle by furnishing his interior with blocklike boxes that can be interchanged and attached to each other by magnets. Each box in Colombo's "mono-home" is multipurpose, can serve to house a TV or to store kitchen utensils. "A bachelor buys some of these pieces for his home," Colombo explains. "He marries and he adds more pieces; he has children and he adds more pieces-it goes upward, sideways, inward and downward." An unexpected guest arrives? Easy, says he: "You just pull out an extra bed, assemble...
...mining the magic of the impossible, Clarke has uncovered the material for 40 volumes that have sold more than 5,000,000 copies-to say nothing of hundreds of articles in Sunday supplements and magazines ranging from LIFE to Playboy. His energy is impressive. In Colombo, Ceylon, where he has lived for the past twelve years, the author taught himself to be an expert skindiver. He has explored many tropical roofs, and charted and searched sunken wrecks in the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean. Inevitably, he has also written extensively about underwater exploration...
...clash of views was polite, if pointed. Debré, pressing for debate on the monetary system as a whole, came out formally for an increase in the official price of gold. A long silence ensued. Finally, German Economics Minister Karl Schiller registered his disagreement. Italy's Emilio Colombo sided with the Germans. The U.S.'s Fowler suggested that the real business of the meeting was the SDRs and asked that the group move briskly along in that area...