Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coupled with Clark's death, that near-tragedy had a signal effect on Stewart. Off the track, the little (5 ft. 6? in., 148 lbs.) driver is all Scottish charm; he wears Savile Row suits and affects shoulder-length locks. When it comes to his profession, however, he is all caution and conservatism. The Belgian Grand Prix was canceled this year largely because of his argument that the race would be too dangerous on wet roads. He was among the first Grand Prix drivers to use the six-point-contact seatbelt, and he introduced the idea of remote-control...
Sophisticated Saga. So Robbins went to the production brass of ABC, and spieled out a scenario. There is this banking family, he winged - Morgan or Roth schild types, with the second generation vying among themselves for command after the death of the patriarch. The saga would unfold in novel form, not with self-contained weekly story segments but chapter by chapter. The Survivors would also be more sophisticated than conventional television - "A story," as Robbins put it, "of today's morals...
...relations was begun last March by the Senior Citizens' Pilot Project under the sponsorship of the Scott County Commission on Aging. Unlike the numerous Dial-a-Prayer switchboards and suicide-prevention centers, its purpose is neither to deliver canned messages of hope nor to cope with life-and-death crises, but to offer lonely callers a simple human connection. The service costs almost nothing: less than $700 a year for telephone equipment and a few office supplies. Not everyone can be a listener. "We're very selective about our volunteers," says Clayton Moore, the project director. They...
...Even patients who are identical in sex and size do not absorb a drug into the bloodstream at the same rate. Their systems do not metabolize the drug at the same rate. Moreover, their reactions to a drug may range all the way from nil to collapse and sudden death as a result of severe allergic shock. "The fate of a drug in the body is a personal affair, as peculiar in a way as a personality trait," says Kalman. "How dare we consider all patients the same? We have to study the drug in the individual patient so that...
...Goldman, Sachs office, he was taken on as a porter's assistant. A large part of his ability to win financiers' confidence was that he not only did not hide this background but even exploited the curiosity value it gave him on Wall Street. Until his death, he kept on display in his office the brass spittoon that he had supposedly polished as his first job at Goldman, Sachs...