Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cracks appeared in the façades of luxury hotels in Manila, and glass panes were wrenched out of the airport control tower by the shock. A five-story apartment building in Manila's Chinese quarter collapsed, trapping 600 people under tons of rubble. At least 111 were known dead in the Philippines' worst earthquake in over a decade...
...lady of style has gobs of money, she can still find all the exclusive, just-for-you creations her heart desires in Paris' high-fashion houses. But the designers these days trend more to mass-market ready-to-wears, known as prét à porter-and to more pants, more boots, more chains, more turtlenecks and, of course, more transparency. For his fall collection, André Courrèges' main excitement was a white, rib-knit jump suit, with a tunic for daytime wear and a sequined pants outfit with see-through top for after dark...
When a man is deprived of food, nature prolongs his life by helping him burn up whatever fat he has stored in his body. Perhaps because this has been known for so long, no one has figured out how nature does it, or whether the mechanism might be used to help fat people slim down. In 15 years of investigating this process, the University of London's Dr. Alan Kekwick and colleagues have found that people on a voluntary starvation regimen produce, somewhere in their bodies, a "fat mobilizing substance" (FMS). The substance speeds and eases the process whereby...
Partly because of his obsession with privacy-he refuses to reveal his first name, rarely gives interviews, shuns Parisian literary circles-Cioran is hardly better known in Europe than in the U.S. Yet there are impressive testimonials to his significance. Critic Susan Sontag, in her introduction to The Temptation to Exist, calls him "the most distinguished figure writing today in the tradition of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Wittgenstein." And Nobel prizewinning poet, Saint-John Perse, hails Cioran as "one of the greatest French writers to honor our language since the death of Paul Valery. His lofty thought...
Died. Dr. Charles W. Mayo, 70, of the famed Mayo Clinic; of a pulmonary hemorrhage; in Rochester, Minn. Born into one of the nation's best-known medical families (his grandfather, uncle and father founded the clinic in 1889), Mayo earned recognition as an abdominal surgeon-and political note as well for exposing Communist brainwashing methods as a delegate to the U.N. during the Korean...