Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talks. Returning to weapons research when President Kennedy ordered resumption of underground testing in Nevada, Ogle was recommended for the Christmas Island job by his longtime boss, Alvin Graves, test director at Los Alamos. (Graves has been one of the leading figures in nuclear testing, once was critically ill from exposure to a radiation dose of 200 roentgens; he recovered, but has been slowed down since a 1955 heart attack.) To get ready for the new tests, Ogle has been averaging about 1,000 miles a day between Washington, Nevada, Hawaii and Christmas Island. He worries not only about scientific...
...good wind that blows no ill. April's breezes brought welcome boons: a respite from steam heat, restorative glimpses of crocus and forsythia, the first game of the new baseball season. April also brought federal income tax time-and the searches for misplaced receipts, much desperate arithmetic, and the disappointments of finding that due payments turn out to be larger or refunds smaller than expected...
...Coiled Mind. On a horse, Jockey Arcaro was all coiled mind and muscle. Yet somehow he managed to look ill at ease. His long Cyrano nose protruded beyond his cap and goggles, as he rode in "ace-deuce" fashion with his right stirrup two inches higher than the left. He carried on a running conversation with all his mounts, his voice and spurs and whip speaking urgently but never harshly. He had a theory that it was almost always better to dangle a whip menacingly in front of a horse's nose than to slash heavily at the animal...
...Other TV stations scheduling the lecture series: New York's WNEW, Kansas City's KMBC, Peoria's WTVH, Decatur, Ill.'s WTVP, Sacramento's KOVR...
Also chosen were: Mark H. Mullin, of Dunster House and Mount Carroll, Ill.; Joseph N. Onek, of Kirkland House and Forest Hills, N.Y.; John W. Price, of Quincy House and Fort Smith, Ark., Paul S. Ronder, of Adams House and Cleveland Heights, Ohio; Clarke R. Slater, of Quincy House and Cambridge; Jack R. Stauder, of Eliot House and Las Cruces...