Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the nudibranch chromodoris has no known enemies despite size, bright coloration, and lack of shell or protection [July 6]. Sir, have you ever eaten a nudibranch chromodoris...
WHEN TIME'S Calgary correspondent Ed Ogle headed down the Mackenzie River on assignment for this week's report (see THE HEMISPHERE) on the Canadian North, he was touring a familiar beat, where he is the most widely known reporter from "outside."' Within the last year Ogle has gone north of the Arctic Circle three times. This time he missed one of his planned stops, reported: "I had no luck getting into Tuktoyaktuk. I hired a seaplane, but storms blew ice into the bay so that no landing was possible. I finally landed ten miles...
Powerful Personification. Yet within what may be remembered as peacetime diplomacy's most amazing 24 hours, Vice President Nixon became the most talked about, best-known and most-effective (if anyone can be effective) Westerner to invade the U.S.S.R. in years. Officially, he was in Moscow to open the fabulous U.S. National Exhibition in Moscow's Sokolniki Park. But Nixon did much more: he gave sharp point to the glittering achievement of the fair because-on Communism's home grounds-he managed in a unique way to personify a national character proud of peaceful accomplishment, sure...
...down, I'm lost"), so she had to walk around the room all the time when she had guests. She fell asleep while playing cards. The diagnosis was narcolepsy (from the Greek narke, stupor, and lepsis, seizure). Relatively rare, its cause unknown, narcolepsy was not even known to run in families until the Mayo Clinic compiled records on more than 200 cases...
Died. Carl Adrian Wettach, 79, tragicomic, Swiss-born circus clown known as "Crock," who elevated pantomime to an art by playing a tiny fiddle with cotton gloves, moving a piano to a stool rather than stool to piano, shrugged off the world's perplexities with his famed exclamations, "Pourquoi?" (why?) and "Sans blague?" (no kidding?); of a heart attack; in Imperia, Italy...