Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anne Campbell of Lakewood was only five when she was found to have a heart murmur. Doctors thought little of it, as such murmurs often disappear without treatment. But as Ro Anne grew, she had less and less energy. Diagnostic studies in 1959 at Denver's National Jewish Hospital showed that her heart's left ventricle had become enlarged by having to pump against the resistance of a narrowed aorta. She was too ill for an operation then. Even more disturbing, the doctors diagnosed Ro Anne's aortic abnormality as a form in which the great artery...
...supersonic jets flying at palmtop level. This is always dangerous-today s jets are so fast that they may crash into a mountain before their pilots even sense trouble. During a low pass, everything blurs into meaningless streaks, like a fence a few feet from a speeding car Landmarks disappear. Objects to be photographed sweep under the plane and are gone in a fraction of a second...
...Charlotte Eakin as Miss Hardcastle, the "bar-maid," and Steve Botein as her father, imposing and imposed upon, give less consistent performances, but their roles are much longer and more difficult. Miss Eakin is troubled by her voice, which sometimes seems in danger of climbing so high it will disappear off the top. Mr. Botein is simply a slow starter; but like Miss Eakin, once he is in control of himself, he takes every advantage of a very rich part. His outrage at the arrogance of his guests (Miss Neville's suitor, and his daughter's) comes in as many...
...Rogers-Dale Evans Show (ABC), mercifully described as a variety hour, has run out of everything but saddle soap and sentimentality. It will disappear this month...
None of the figures is meant to be any particular person. Jones sees his echoing monochrome backgrounds as crowded with people all waiting to be pulled out. "I don't know how many figures are standing there waiting. If the face I first find should disappear, there would be many others to take up the emptiness." Jones does not pretend to have a message about suffering humanity; yet his figures do seem laden with fateful secrets they stubbornly refuse to tell. "People are very mysterious." says Jones quite simply, and in his painting the mystery is there in full...