Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nancy. Tom hates brown and green so much that he covers every inch of Colin's living room, including the windows, with white paint. Nancy, cloth-capped and wide-eyed, just in from the provinces, starts out looking for the YWCA. But, as she observes when Tom and Colin lift the antique bed on which she is sitting, "I've been picked up, haven...
...finding that mystified the doctors was the astronauts' significant weight loss. Cooper weighed in for lift-off at 152 Ibs., returned 7½ Ibs. lighter; Conrad started out at 154 Ibs., finished 8½ Ibs. lighter. The astronauts ate only 2,000 calories a day, compared with the 2,700 calories provided for them-but then, neither of them is a heavy eater. Dehydration? Though both astronauts drank six pints of liquid daily-which would seem to preclude the possibility of dehydration-doctors figured that there must be some still unknown factors in space flight that do dehydrate...
...Manhattan's Arnold Constable, the show belonged to Caroline Charles, one of the dozen young designers of the "Chelsea Revolution" whose presumptuous styles have forced even the London fog to lift. Backed by the wailing beat and flanked by dancers in fishnet stockings, the Charles collection mesmerized a series of teen-age audiences. And music, as sales figures testify, has something to do with fashion. Said Caroline, to the rhythmic sound of amplified guitars: "Dig one, you're bound to dig the other...
Toward the end of the 47th revolution, he scored a space first-the visual sighting of a missile launching. "I see it, I see it," cried Conrad, as the 60-ft. Minuteman burst through the clouds over Vandenberg A.F.B. The Air Force had timed the lift-off to test whether Gemini 5 could locate and photograph such an operation. Several revolutions later, the astronauts spotted a second Minuteman launch from Vandenberg...
...Ground control feared that the spacecraft was running out of storage space for water and that it threatened to back up into the cells and knock them out. Kraft informed Conrad of the problem and asked, "How's that for a surprise?" Cracked Conrad: "Nothing surprises me after lift...