Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Paris has plenty of doctors-during daylight hours. From 8 in the evening until 8 the next morning, the doctors insist on their privacy; medical help becomes harder to find than a polite cab driver. To Parisians the scarcity has sometimes meant long hours of pain, or even death...
...still the sea-the element he came to know so familiarly that he could refer to it with the authority of a King Canute as "that duck pond." Because of such mastery, his art sings chanties that help men endure and enjoy what they cannot control themselves...
Working on a leisurely schedule. Surveyor reported a new set of midday temperature readings and shot a short test series of television pictures. Additional picture taking was put off until later in the lunar day, when lengthening shadows would bring out more detail and perhaps even help determine if any meteors had struck near by since the last pictures. Then suddenly, a short circuit caused the battery temperature to soar to what appeared to be fatally high levels. Surveyor hurriedly made another TV sweep of the moonscape, and scientists resigned themselves to its end at last. But just as they...
...Needed Help? In reply, Lowe contended that his $4,000 payment to Sparger was only for a survey of the show's "commercial effectiveness," presumably by polling viewers. Such an analysis is commonly made by sponsors if not by producers. In any case, Lowe noted, it is "ridiculous and incredible to believe that Carol Channing should need any help," because in both the Nielsen and Arbitron ratings, her special outdrew the second-place show in the time slot by millions of viewers. And even if somebody wished to rig the ratings, it would seem ridiculous...
Israeli Grievance. Since then, the canal has been a going concern. Under Younes and Mashour, who succeeded him last October, and with the help of foreign loans, the canal has been widened by 80 ft. and deepened for drafts of 38 ft. instead of 35 ft. Employees are kept on their toes by Mashour, who tours the canal banks every day in a black Chevrolet. The one real grievance against Egypt is that it still bars the canal to Israeli traffic...