Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dainty dots winding down from the ridge into the plain. The cool night air was heavy with dust and fumes from many engines. A return convoy of empty trucks, Lambrettas and Citroëns going back to Hué for more refugees (and more business) was halted for an hour as the refugees descended through the pass. Drivers stretched out on straw mats on the asphalt, eating bowls of rice in the glare of their own headlights. Beside the road, some families who had walked the 45 kilometers from Phu Lap sat on straw mats around a single, thick...
...thunderstorms raged outside Rome's Palazzo dello Sport, Party Secretary Enrico Berlinguer, 52, explained the significance of the compromise in a 3½-hour keynote addressed to the 1,124 Italian delegates at the congress. It was Berlinguer who two years ago first proposed the idea that Italy's second largest party should become a partner in the government, after 30 years of opposition. Berlinguer argued that Communist participation in a government with other parties was essential "for the future of Italian democracy." He did not spell out the specific terms under which the party would enter such...
Close Look. The four-hour flyby was an unexpected bonus at the end of an already successful $100 million mission. Three months after its launch in November 1973, Mariner 10 passed Venus and took the first closeup pictures of the cloud-shrouded planet. Then slowed by Venusian gravity, it plunged toward the sun, approaching Mercury in March and again in September 1974. On those flybys, Mariner got the first close look at the planet and detected a weak magnetic field that some scientists thought might be caused by Mercury's interaction with the solar wind, a stream of charged...
What is it like to work a 36-hour shift? That is precisely how long Dr. Edward Condon, 28, was on virtually continuous duty" recently at New York City's 970-bed Elmhurst Hospital as part of his internship. The log of his prolonged...
...more, Condon reported for duty at 8 a.m. He immediately began taking blood samples from patients, then at 9 a.m. broke off to accompany a resident as he stopped at patients' bedsides. At 11:30 he wolfed down a sandwich and spent the rest of his lunch hour in the library reviewing patients' records to prepare himself for teaching rounds, when he would tour the ward with an attending physician. From 4 p.m., when the tour ended, until dinnertime, Condon continued his morning routine...