Word: heat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least expense. On the average, a camper's vacation only costs $40 for two weeks in the sun. One Frankfurt camper spent ten days in Italy. He brought along gas for his motor scooter, canned food, which he cooked over a portable stove with German canned heat, a tent, blankets, and other necessities for independent outdoor living. Cost of his trip: nothing. Said he: "The only thing I took from Italy was water from the public fountains...
...seasonable 100° F. or higher in Abilene and Phoenix, Jackson (Miss.) and Kansas City last week. The Dakotas had it in the 903, and so did normally more temperate New England and the Pacific Northwest-Hartford 90, Boston 92, Spokane 98. The cliche, "It isn't the heat, it's the humidity," was only locally and partially true. Heat, both wet and dry. sent scores of patients to hospitals and some to their graves. The heat was a burning question for laymen and military surgeons. But two doctors write in GP (published by the American Academy...
...viewers with alarm were Sister Michael Marie* and Dr. Matthew Ferguson, who saw most of their cases of heat illness at St. Vincent's Hospital, among Manhattan's bakeoven brick and brownstone pueblos. Doctors have long since dropped the lay term "sunstroke" because, they note, heat can strike down a man in the shade almost as readily. Actually, say the St. Vincent's physicians, there may be a dozen forms of heat illness. Some of them "are true medical emergencies, and any hesitation or indecisiveness in their diagnosis and treatment may result in death...
Stifling in Nigeria's rainy-season heat, the shanty-filled town of Shagamu seemed hardly the place to find 15 fresh-faced American college students. But there they were last week, and not snapping pictures of the natives from an air-conditioned bus. Up at 6 every morning, boys and girls spent the long days chopping trees and shoveling dirt to hack out a road from a school to a chapel back in the bush. In credulous Africans followed them everywhere; a dozen English-speaking Nigerian students worked beside them, jabbering questions about life in the U.S. Asked...
...meters in 5 min. 9.9 sec. Yet even though Rafer Johnson had broken Kuznetsov's ten-event record after only nine events. Johnson's victory was still in doubt. C. K. Yang had not yet run his 1,500-meter heat; a time of 4 min. 34.8 sec. would earn him enough points to beat Johnson. As the heat started, Yang, terribly tired, faltered and fell back. Johnson, watching from the sidelines, leaped to his feet, dashed to the edge of the track and, in a memorable display of sportsmanship, shouted. "Keep going, Yang. Keep going...