Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before muscular, 39-year-old Bill Rankin, combat pilot and a bar-bellhefting, physical-culture fan, would touch earth again, he was in for 40 minutes that even other old salts of the air would be talking about for years...
Surprisingly, it was in the Chinese Medical Journal (which prints a lot of unscientific Communist quackery) that major progress was reported. T'ang Fei-Fan and colleagues in Peking described scrupulously conducted experiments in which they grew generations of the virus in fertilized eggs, gave it to monkeys, which got something like trachoma...
...Sisters of the Rosary of Wewak. Today the roster includes 30 native sisters and novices (average age: 21) whose royal blue habits and white headdresses do not conceal the facial tattoos of their tribal origin. As nurses and teachers, they help the white nuns in the region, who constantly fan out to outlying parishes, get around on horseback, motorcycles or Jeeps, ford streams on oil-drum rafts, shoot snakes and birds of prey that threaten the mission's poultry flocks. So pleased is the flying bishop with the Rosary order that he now plans to launch an equivalent order...
...compact cars. "They will have six-cylinder compact cars, but we have an eight," says he. S.P. will add a 1960 Lark four-door station wagon and a convertible, but confidently will make no basic changes in style. Churchill is betting that the Big Three's entries will fan public interest in U.S. smaller cars, double the market to more than 20%. And he believes that his Lark-already off to a flying start-will wing away with a fair share...
...Brave Bulls. No Los Angeles clergyman has yet offered prayers in the streets for the team, as once happened in Brooklyn. Nor has any Dodger fan shot a buddy who had the temerity to knock the Bums, as also happened in Brooklyn. But things are heating up fast enough. Giant Manager Bill Rigney makes no bones about who is going to win: "My young bulls have the taste of first place, and they like it. We're going to win the pennant." The Dodger fans' answer: a rootin'-tootin' cavalry blast on dozens of trumpets carried...