Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news not only from week to week, but also from month to month and year to year. More often than not, a story can be put in proper perspective only if it is seen in the larger focus of significant developments that may well be obscured by fast-breaking day-to-day news. Among the stories in this week's TIME that especially called for this wider, larger, deeper view...
...white mount, Yasmin Khan, 9, daughter of Aly Khan and Cinemactress Rita Hay worth, displayed some reinless riding form in the posh French seaside resort of Deauville. Recently a subject of perennial squabbling between her parents, well-to-do Yasmin is now spending the summer with her fast-living father...
...help it. After all, Harry Murphy was pitching for the Braves. Maybe Murph was only ten, but Murph already weighed no Ibs., and was 5 ft. 2 in. tall. And when Murph scowled and bit his tongue and threw his submarine ball, everyone knew that he was just as fast as most of the big kids in town. Still, the eight-year-old managed to stand up at the plate and take his three cuts, even though all the kids and parents in the park could tell only too well that he had wet his pants...
...Walking fast, the bird man moved through the neighborhood, in and out of driveways and over lawns, flapping the aluminum cricket bats together, not looking where he was going, but staring piercingly into the trees. The starlings stared back. The bird man kept the bats banging, every so often used one to stroke the tube hanging from his neck...
...roving surgeon flew in, and at Dr. Dooley's request removed what he could of the lump, sent it to the laboratory for testing. Last week Dr. Dooley was back in the U.S. on the strength of the lab report: sarcoma-a fast-spreading cancer, often quickly fatal...