Word: feats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jackpot, Brain must correctly answer a series of questions spread over four weeks. If he misses, the scene quickly shifts to a race track, a gymnasium or another studio, where Brawn, a topflight French athlete or even a whole team, has to pull off some spectacular physical feat to keep the game going...
Great as it was, Jon's feat did not come up to Ilsa's for impact on the swimming world. Barrel-chested Jon had been a reserve on the mighty Australian Olympic team, so his time was not altogether a surprise. But Ilsa had never raced the 880 before she set the record. In fact, for a while it had seemed that she would never become a first-rate swimmer. Dogged by colds and flu, she tried hard but won no state titles in 1956. Last year she was troubled by swollen knees, spent twelve weeks with both...
...artificially made or taken from another person. That medical Utopia seems to be coming closer. Last week a little boy with a ruptured aorta was technically dead for 2¾ hours while surgeons put in a new bit of vital plumbing donated by a man recently dead. Another surgical feat, less dramatic but equally remarkable in its own way, was performed on a pretty teen-ager who, without knowing it, was becoming deformed by a curvature of the spine. For a progress report on both patients see MEDICINE, The Heart That Stopped, and The Role of the Turtle...
...Foreign Secretary. More than any other man, Harold Macmillan had inspired the NATO summit meeting in Paris-a feat which gave Britons the mildly exhilarating feeling that their counsels were again carrying their old weight in the world's chancelleries. Last week, as he prepared to depart on a five-week tour of Commonwealth nations, Macmillan was hailed expansively by some Tory supporters as "the Foreign Secretary of the West...
...heart attack; in Belle-Isle, France. Sea Dog Orsborne joined the Royal Navy at 14, fought in two world wars, in 1936 stole a 30-ton trawler, the Girl Pat, and with crew of three sailed 5,000 miles down the African coast and across the Atlantic, for his feat earned an 18-month jail sentence. Tracing Charles Darwin's 19th century world voyage in the Beagle, Orsborne in 1951 sailed the ketch Argosy from England, ended his trip abruptly in Trinidad when arrested for arms smuggling. His boast: "I did things no other man has done and stayed...