Word: hand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Presumed Dead. William Willis, 75, solitary sailor who, just for the challenge of it, pitted his skill against the sea in small, hand-built boats; after his battered 11½-ft. sloop Little One was found empty 400 miles west of Ireland and 143 days out of Montauk Point, L.I. A seaman since 15, Willis sailed alone in 1954 aboard a balsa raft from Peru to Samoa, and in 1963-64 made a 10,000-mile solo voyage from Peru to Australia. Before his third and last unsuccessful attempt to reach England from America alone, he said: "The greatest challenge...
Died. Constantine John Philip Ionides, 67, the legendary Snake Man of East Africa, whose slithery pets often bit the hand that fed them; of coronary thrombosis; in Nairobi. Sandhurst-trained lonides felt more at home among animals than among men, whom he called "the least interesting of all animals." A devoted herpetologist, he discovered four new species of snakes and hunted down 22 rare species of mammals for the world's zoos and museums. Even after his legs were amputated because of illness, he continued to stalk the bush-in a wheelchair...
...Vague. While both companies' boards and stockholders have yet to approve the plan, however, it clearly made sense to Xerox President C. Peter McColough and C.I.T. Chairman L. Walter Lundell, the men who shook hands on the deal. As primarily a leaser rather than a seller of machines, Xerox needs constant access to borrowed capital, which C.I.T. now handles in sums that total up to $2 billion at any given time. Xerox has been in the market for merger partners or acquisitions for several years, ever since former President Joseph Wilson decided that "our future depends on what...
There are four cards in the hand: two boys, Mark and Eric; two striking girls, Elizabeth and Emilie. They see more or less of what is happening, the Jeu Total. (That is the title of a French poster in Eric's apartment. Poster of a face holding four cards, the cards are held by a witch who mixes hands from the hand. To know Jeu Total you must know the mind of the player, the Witch of Changes. "A sullen, sleepy-eyed girl--someone really nasty." You won't forget the line when you hear...
...hand you some pieces, some idea of how fast you must work when this movie gathers itself in the last minutes...