Word: heartful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bidding: East South West North Pass 1 spade pass 3 spades pass 6 spades all pass West led the Heart King...
Divorced. Dr. Christiaan Barnard, 46, South African surgeon who in 1967 rose to fame by performing the first successful human heart transplant; by Aletta Gertruida Barnard, 45, a former nurse at Groote Schuur Hospital; on grounds of technical desertion; after 21 years of marriage, two children; in Cape Town, South Africa. Though Barnard obviously enjoyed his celebrity status, his wife was less impressed. "I've got a home to run," she said at one point, "whether we are famous...
Died. Charles Edison, 78, son of the famed inventor, former Secretary of the Navy (1939-40) and crusading Governor of New Jersey (1941-44); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Lacking his father's genius, Edison turned his hand to business and politics-first as president of the family's multimillion-dollar enterprises, then as ardent New Dealer. In 1936, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy and three years later assumed the full Cabinet post, in which he supervised the Navy's intensive shipbuilding program. Then, as reform-minded New Jersey Governor, he ran head...
...French ethnologist, Francis Maziere, who in 1963 took himself, his Polynesian wife and an adventurous friend to Easter Island for a nine-month stay. In this translation of his absorbing though frequently perfervid text, Maziere describes discoveries that seem to open a crack into the heart of the prehistoric puzzle. In doing so, however, he had inadvertently generated another mystery: were the discoveries made by Maziere, or did he borrow some of his facts from Father Sebastian Englert...
...Polynesians who struggled for supremacy until, at the start of the third epoch, they succeeded in incinerating the yellow men in a volcanic ravine. In the third epoch, the Polynesians continued to make modi in a degenerate style, until the white man's diseases and depredations took the heart and the art out of their culture...