Word: famous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FEEL GOOD) (King). James Brown, a regular on the rhythm-and blues honor roll, has some good instrumental backing in the Famous Flames, but he does not need it; his voice has its own banked fires...
...offer a Levitt house [Dec. 10] as a laudable U.S. export. As a sample of informed architectural opinion in France, where Levitt houses are now being built, I quote the words of L' Architecture D'Aujourd'hui: "Here now, recovered from America, is the famous prewar suburban villa, epitomizing bad taste, obsolescence, and the absence of any architectural quality whatsoever...
From the Yam. Syntex's own oral contraceptive, Norinyl, holds a relatively small share of the market, but Syntex also supplies the pill's basic compound to three other major pill makers: Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson, and Parke, Davis. Though the pill has made Syntex famous, 59% of the company's sales and half its profits come from other drug products. These include other hormones used to treat skin inflammations and the ingredients of cortisone, a major drug for treatment of arthritic diseases...
...complete century of incredible carnage, were abolished in 1935. But they survive in song and story, cinema and television as strong silent lawmen who all look like Gary Cooper or Lyndon B. Johnson. They are more factually commemorated by Historian Walter Prescott Webb (The Great Frontier) in this famous volume, republished now (with a foreword by President Johnson) for the first time since 1935. But the facts, though they strongly suggest that the Rangers did not always keep their honor high and clear, nevertheless indicate that the organization at worst was a necessary evil, at best an instrument of civilization...
...border to control cattle rustling. The leader of the border patrol, Captain L. H. McNelly, is generally acknowledged as the greatest Ranger of them all. He mounted a scarum series of across-the-border raids against Mexican rustlers, and then capped his campaign with perhaps the most famous action in the history of the corps: the Las Cuevas War. At the head of an "army" of 30 Rangers, McNelly "invaded" Mexico, blitzed the main staging area for all rustling operations, fought off 450 armed men and forced the Mexican authorities to return 75 head of stolen cattle...