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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...engine idled at twice its normal r.p.m.s, blew up on its block, and had to be towed 130 miles to the Pasadena finish line. It got there a full 37 hours before Caltech's Volkswagen bus limped into Cambridge. But the Caltech team had made the trip with fewer penalties. As a result, the adjusted finishing time was 210 hours and 3 minutes for Cal tech, 210 hours and 30 minutes for M.I.T. An ordinary auto spouting its noxious fumes, of course, would have made the trip in at least half the time...
...drug was never licensed for sale in the U.S., so American victims of thalidomide number fewer than 20. Great Britain, however, has more than 1,000 thalidomide babies. In West Germany, where Chemie Grünenthal GMBH first introduced thalidomide as a magically potent tranquilizer and sleeping pill, there are at least 3,184 surviving thalidomide-deformed children, while an equal number have died. In addition, some 5,000 adults are believed to have suffered permanent injury, a generalized neuritis that is invariably painful and sometimes disabling...
Searching out the Patriot's fate, Dr. Pool over the years turned up no fewer than seven deathbed confessions by pirates, all of whom described boarding such a ship, looting it and forcing crew and passengers to walk the plank. One pirate told of a lady passenger who asked for a reprieve while she changed into a white dress, then calmly walked to her death. Were the lady in white and Theodosia the same as the lady in the portrait? The present owner, Wilmarth Lewis, Yale '18 and a Horace Walpole scholar, believes that they were. He points...
...Anyone who tries to say that fewer than half the students in any high school in Southern California have taken pot doesn't know what he's talking about," insists Caldwell Williams, guidance counselor at Los Angeles' University High. Cub scouts in San Francisco discuss the pros and cons of pot with savvy, and in nearby San Rafael a marijuana sale took place right in class before the eyes of the astonished sixth-grade teacher. Nor is the increase in pot use limited to California. When the headmaster of a Colorado boarding school asked students who were...
...Protestants and still fewer Jews practice rhythm. In addition, Orthodox Jews abide by Niddah, the Mosaic law which prescribes abstention while a woman is "unclean" (Leviticus 15:19-24). Some rabbinical teachers have extended this time to a total of seven days after the end of menstruation...