Word: dies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decade in jungle and mountains, while fat cats in the cities grew fatter on U.S. and Communist aid; yet never had he known whom or what he was fighting or defending. "You have to give a man something to live for," he said, "before you can ask him to die." To the tough paratrooper, as to most Southeast Asians, the cold war was a puzzlement. Neutrality seemed the answer, and Kong Le gladly included the Pathet Lao within his amiable embrace. But, battle by battle and defection by defection, Kong Le and Laos learned that not even a neutral could...
...irregular that one golfer accused Architect Robert Trent Jones of burying dinosaurs under the undulating turf. The 9th hole is all of 599 yds. long, and its green is separated from the fairway by a deep, grass-choked ravine. "That," said one pro, "is where elephants go to die." In short, the Congressional is a brutal course, even for Palmer, Nicklaus, or Tony Lema, who had just won two tournaments in a row. But when Palmer fired the only sub-par round of the first day, a two-under 68, one sportswriter boldly announced that "Arnold Palmer has 198 holes...
...recipe has long been a staple of science fiction: learn how to keep monkey brains alive after the monkeys die, then try the technique with humans. But whatever the profits of the fictional feat, such achievements would be even more rewarding to the real scientist. Now, at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital, researchers have taken the first long step: they have learned to keep isolated monkey brains alive...
...White's monkey brains sometimes stay alive for as long as 18 hours. When they finally die, it is usually because of waste products accumulating in the blood. Soon Dr. White hopes to use an artificial kidney to clean up the blood and lengthen the brains' survival time...
Once an employee wins with a suggestion, he almost always tries again. At General Motors, where $7,000,000 was distributed to more than 200,000 employees for suggestions last year, a die tester named George Herzig is the grand champion. In 17 years, he has dropped 134 suggestions in the box, had 35 accepted. With the $41,905 he received, he has bought and furnished a house...