Word: hookups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Each of the seven days that the hookup lasted, Schmidt and Baldwin divided their time equally between sitting up in bed and lying down. They could sleep as much as they wanted. Schmidt, who comes from Levittown. L.I., broke the monotony of reading and card playing by strumming his banjo and singing folk songs. Baldwin, who comes from Ithaca, N.Y., was eagerly looking forward to a steak dinner at experiment's end after meals that were identical every...
More promising are prospects of an Eastern-American hookup, which would allow a money-saving consolidation of ground facilities and maintenance plants in 29 key points already served in common by the two lines. Equally important, American's transcontinental routes mesh nicely into Eastern's system; American is also making money (about $6,000,000 in 1961). And prideful President C. R. Smith, 62, is well aware that a merger would re-establish American as the world's biggest airline-a position it lost when archrival United absorbed Capital...
...wounds healed, physicians connected the tubes to the artificial kidney. This filtered the poisons out of Ben's blood, to give him a few days' lease on life. The beauty of the technique was that with the bypass the tubes stayed in place, ready for the next hookup, without further surgery...
...countrymen. One ebullient newsman described him as having "a kind Russian face, with eyes well separated." Another, who interviewed Gagarin soon after landing, seemed so dazzled by the new national hero that he wrote: "His eyes were shining as though still reflecting spatial starlight." A nationwide hookup broadcast a telephone conversation between "Gaga," as the Soviet public promptly nicknamed him, and Premier Khrushchev, who was vacationing on the Black...
...tone of the new union was moderate. Speech after speech urged caution in dealings with the Communist bloc, and plans were made for a hookup with Europe's six-nation Common Market. As their next step, the conferees decided to seek some kind of affiliation with huge Nigeria and rubber-rich Liberia. If this came off, West Africa would have a powerful counterweight to the noisy, elbowing radicals of Ghana and Guinea...