Word: lateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Second-Story Women. The grind began in Vienna in late 1956 when Austria beat Luxembourg 7-0. Almost every month, for the next year and a half, somewhere in the world national teams were playing for the privilege of going to Sweden. There were 53 entrants at the start of the competition and, in some sections, politics eliminated almost as many as defeats did on the playing field. The Afro-Asian section collapsed early, in angry disarray. Nationalist China withdrew rather than play Indonesia, which had defeated Red China. Turkey pulled out, claiming it should have been classed as European...
...station six days' notice (he had no contract), announced he was switching to Channel 9, which he had only days before characterized as "the Skid Row channel." On his last KCOP shows he laid into KCOP lustily: "I am in a stream of very bad consciousness. Wherefore of late I have lost my mirth, to quote General Trujillo, I want to express my appreciation for the lack of cooperation, the lack of consideration, the lack of even primitive facilities, which have made a man out of me." Commented Station Manager Al Flanagan shortly: "We survived Liberace's departure...
...times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity ..." The Globe Tale begins as simply and unmemorably as a badlands bang-banger: "On a Friday night late in November, 1775, the stagecoach . . . from London to Dover was toiling slowly up Shooter's Hill...
Whatever the mechanics of cancer causation, early detection is essential. A case in point: lung cancer, which will not show up in chest X ray during its earlier stages. When it does show, it is often too late. The trick has been to get cells from lung secretions to make "Papanicoulaou smears" like those made famous in detecting cancer of the cervix and uterus...
...returned to full-scale production, while Chrysler Corp. scored a 13% production boost in June. Yet even as the wheels rolled a bit faster, the industry got set for the annual model changeover shutdown. Buick production was stopped last week for approximately six weeks; Chrysler will start shutting down late this month, Plymouth in early August and Ford in September...