Word: hearted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Take Heart...
...life-saving devices, not least of which was the traffic signal. George Washington Carver, of course, transformed Southern agriculture by discovering scores of new uses-from peanut butter to shaving cream-for the lowly peanut, soybean and sweet potato. In medicine, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performed the first successful heart operation in 1893, while Dr. Charles Drew pioneered in new techniques to store blood plasma. Drew, ironically, bled to death after he was injured in a car crash-and was turned away by an all-white hospital...
Azaleas too pooped to pop? Fluffy ruffles lost their curl? Pollypoddies look like a tossed salad? Take heart. For every ailment, TV Horticulturist Thalassa Cruso has a remedy: "A highhanded plunge into a bathtub full of sudsy water will do wonders for your plant." If not, well, "then throw it out. You'll feel much happier replacing it with a fresher, sprightlier plant...
Died. Harold L. Bache, 73, chairman and chief executive officer since 1945 of Bache & Co., Inc., world's second largest brokerage house (after Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith); of an apparent heart attack; in Manhattan. Bache started out in 1914 running trade messages for $1 a day, rose through the cotton and wheat pits to the top of his granduncle's 89-year-old brokerage house, which he expanded from 48 to 124 branches and turned into the top dealer in both commodities and mutual funds...
Miller brought an admirable determination to his job. He could have retired two years ago, when he developed serious heart trouble. But he felt that his work was not done. "I want to move theological education one hairbreadth closer to reality," he told a friend...