Word: ens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Memoir or anti-memoir - by any name, the book is bound to be a bestsell er. All through his adult life Author Andre Malraux has been I'homme en gage, a committed man whose activities capture the popular imagination. As a young student of Oriental archaeology, he was once jailed for trying to cart away from the Cambodian jungle some ancient Khmer statues that he admired...
Though the Belfast doctors make a fetish of avoiding "haste or fuss," the patient is soon on his way to the hospital in the mobile unit, with his heart monitored all the way. If it stops en route, the doctors can restart it, just as they would in the hospital. The unit has proved so effective that in its first 15 months of operation not one of the 312 heart patients taken to the Royal Victoria has died in transit. Once in the hospital, many-perhaps most-of them have fared better because superior treatment was started so promptly...
...much as anyone, Lodge was responsible for persuading Eisenhower to seek the presidency in 1952, and for outwitting the rival Taft forces at the Republican Convention. In the resulting Ike landslide, he then ironically lost his own seat to John F. Kennedy, partly because vengeful Taftites voted en masse for J.F.K. But no matter: for the next eight years Lodge earned international fame as Ike's U.N. ambassador, slugging it out verbally with the Russians in a manner that made him a TV hero...
...lines on flights to and from New Orleans while under indictment in Maryland for inciting a riot. On the latest charge he faces a maximum of five years in the penitentiary and a $2,000 fine. Meanwhile, Stokely Carmichael, Brown's predecessor as chairman of S.N.C.C. was reported en route from Havana to Hanoi to inspect American "atrocities...
...contrast, the full-scale replica of America that sailed into New York harbor last week en route to the Cup trials at Newport cost the F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Co. $500,000 to construct. Architects for the new America: Sparkman & Stephens, the same firm that designed Intrepid. * The Twelves get their name from a complicated rating formula that takes into consideration length, girth, sail area and freeboard, and after much mathematical hocus-pocus equals 39.37 ft., or twelve meters. * And who now has his own class named after him, the 30-ft. Shields boat, first brought...