Word: lane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terms meaningful to her. The 182-ft.first stage of the Saturn I is "three feet taller than the White House," its thrust is "equal to the power required to drive 100,000 Cadillacs," and the concrete in a 400-ft.-high test stand "would be sufficient to build a four-lane highway from Dallas to Fort Worth." Said Lady Bird: "Thank you for putting it into words I can almost understand...
...recorded for posterity. But now "a voice from beyond death" can be everyone's. All that is needed is a tape recorder - and Worden's book. A lifetime is meticulously arranged in sections ("The Color of Yesterday," "Your Birth and Before") to guide the subject down memory lane. He is encouraged to introduce a favorite record, or an old chum, but cautioned to avoid "controversial subjects such as politics, religion, family feuds and speeches to the jury." Worden's book costs $3, a tape recorder as little as $30. Immortality would be cheap at half the price...
After six years of labor by 500 men, and at a cost of 17 lives and $35 million, a two-lane tunnel has been driven 3.6 miles through the rock. On the Swiss side, a 3.4-mile covered access road is lifted to the tunnel mouth by graceful concrete pylons. On the Italian side, another such road, pyloned and covered (for protection against snow and landslides) moves 6.4 miles in graceful hairpin turns down to St. Rhémy. Motorists have the impression of driving along an enormous veranda with breath-taking views of the Aosta valley...
Instant Poison. "When it is irritated," says the University of Miami's Zoologist Charles E. Lane, "the cell extends the hollow thread, and when the barb has penetrated the skin, it squeezes a tiny drop of poison the length of the tube." The instant a tentacle touches a bather, hundreds of cells go into action in a fraction of a second...
...like Brecht and Weill," one critic humphed, and another suggested that all the fat cats clapped only to confuse spies from the tax collector's office. But the curtain calls had nothing to do with socialist realism. Instead, they were a tribute to Gloria Davy and Gloria Lane, two American singers who made Mahagonny a triumph in any tongue. "A fine pair of Glorias," said Corriere Delia Sera's man, giving Lane, at least, new reason to ponder her expatriate career. "Every two-bit American singe'r who has appeared in Europe has been engaged...