Word: kern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...middle of the day unless the heavens were trying to say something important....When we'd stepped off the plane at Nouakchott, several people thought they were feeling exhaust from the airplane engines. But it was just an average Mauritanian afternoon, 114 and breezy....Much of the equipment Kern had brought to Africa was homemade, including a coelostat that incorporated a bicycle chain, part of a gun mount, and lead from melted car batteries.... Total eclipses are the ideal time for Vulcan hunts, since the sun is high but the sky is dark. Fischer was going to use an enormous...
...been drilled, plowed, fertilized, sprayed and pummeled into productivity by a succession of determined refugees from Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas and by a sprinkling of Armenians, Italians and Basques. The people still work the land hard for a living. Bakersfield, a city of 74,000 and the seat of Kern County, is the hub of the lower valley and reflects that habit of work. TIME Correspondent Richard Duncan traveled there recently to take a look at yet another man-made miracle, The King of Glory. His report...
...Tight End Richard Caster. A few minutes later, the Colts scored, narrowing the Jets' margin to three points. When New York got the ball again, Namath called a pass play that could have gone to one of three receivers. Meanwhile the Colts had inserted a fresh cornerback, Rex Kern, No. 44, into the secondary; his primary responsibility was covering Caster. As Namath dropped back, Kern, fresh from an injury, tried to pick up the speedy Jet tight end. Namath recalls with a grin: "As I was getting ready to throw, I just saw a big, clean...
...inside information. The Globe's management, still gasping at the relatively paltry $8.5 million price tag paid for the Traveler and its immense mechanical plant, mustered the good-naturedness to run a front-page editorial welcoming their new competitor. The Herald Traveler and Record American's publisher, Harold Kern, welcomed his paper into existence--also on the front page--with a four paragraph blurb reminiscent of copy composed by a disenfranchised...
Wilson has lived in the same house in the Red Acres section of East Memphis for the past 26 years. It is a comfortable but far from palatial six-bedroom ranch. Here he raised his five children, Spence, 29; Bob, 27; Kern Jr., 25; Betty, 24; Carole, 22. Wilson and his wife Dorothy, whom he married five days before Pearl Harbor in 1941, are openly affectionate; he likes to hold her hand in public or squeeze her knee when sitting beside her. He also talks over many of his big plans with her. A handsome, energetic woman, Mrs. Wilson...