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...Dallas' Baylor University Medical Center, said that Mister Sam tolerated the first big doses well, and had no nausea. A midweek bout of pneumonia interrupted the treatment, but Rayburn rallied quickly. After that he was given FUDR (5-fluoro-2'-deoxyuridine), which is a close chemical kin of 5-fluorouracil and works the same...
...mission in the age of the missile and the atom. With what money it had, the Army joined the interservice scramble for space, developed the Jupiter-C that launched the first satellite in 1958. Army Research and Development spent millions perfecting the intermediate-range, nuclear-tipped Jupiter missile (no kin to Jupiter-C), only to have it taken away by the Department of Defense and given to the Air Force. Other sorely needed Army funds were spent on such Buck Rogers gimmicks as the one-man helicopter and backpack rockets that would turn an infantryman into a flyboy capable...
...automatic washer-dryer for $144 -40% below competitors' prices. Bloom's first ad pulled 8,000 inquiries, and soon he was selling 500 machines a week. Hoping to cut overhead by opening production lines in Britain, he next made a novel deal with Rolls Razor Ltd. (no kin to automaking Rolls-Royce): Bloom gave Rolls an order to make 25,000 washers, and Rolls in return made Bloom its managing director. Now the two firms are merging-with Bloom in control...
...kin to University of California President Clark Kerr...
Lenore Jensen grew up surrounded by sureshot kin, practiced marksmanship as a tot. "When Lenore was two," recalls her mother, "she carried a toy rifle around with her. She'd sprawl out on the living room floor, and people would laugh and say, 'Look at that. Perfect prone position.' " Her father, who died when Lenore was eleven, was a topflight competitive marksman; her mother has been firing smallbore rifles for 24 years, last year won the National Women's Any Sight Championship. Stepfather Marvin Driver is a crack pistol shot and longtime director of the National...