Word: jans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advanced Mr. Baker $50,000 out of what he called 'cam- paign contributions,' and he would have to replenish it out of his own pocket if he couldn't pay." Baker had testified earlier that Kerr canceled the debt just before he died on Jan...
Chicagoans knew that the balmy 65° weather could hardly last-it was, after all, the warmest Jan. 24 on record- but they little dreamed how startling the change would be. Within two days, the temperature plummeted to the 20s, snow came cascading down, and icy winds gusted through the streets. Though no stranger to wintry storms, Chicago found itself in the brief space of 24 hours paralyzed by the worst blizzard in its history-a raging storm that tore through large sections of the Midwest and caused at least 75 deaths...
...Glendale, Calif., had decided years ago that he wanted his body preserved by freezing for later revival if possible. He had left $4,200 for a steel capsule and for liquid nitrogen to keep his body frozen at about 200° below zero centigrade. When Bedford died on Jan. 12, his physician, Dr. B. Renault Able, began to pack the body in ice. Members of the Cryonics Society of California arrived to help. They spent eight hours, sending out periodically for more ice, getting the body frozen solid. They used artificial respiration and external heart massage to protect the brain...
...inherited a major share of the family fortune, wasted none of it on the jet-set scene, prefer- ring to live quietly and, with her husband Stephen Currier, 36, search out philanthropic causes for their Taconic Foundation, which last year distributed $2,400,000; lost with her husband on Jan. 17 when their chartered plane went down somewhere between Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands...
When financially grounded Douglas Aircraft Co. chose St. Louis' soaring McDonnell Co. over half a dozen other would-be saviors (TIME, Jan. 20), one big question remained in the guessing game that had fascinated the industry for weeks: What would happen to Founder-Chairman Donald W. Douglas Sr., 74, and his son, President Donald Jr., 49, who had been widely blamed for the company's perils in the midst of prosperity? An answer of sorts came last week, when McDonnell brass flew to Santa Monica, Calif., to agree on terms for the merger...