Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Long, Light Sleep. At London's Charing Cross Hospital, a team led by Dr. Peter Nixon relies on sleep to ease the coronary occlusion victim through the first dangerous days. Their reasoning: pain and fear may be important factors in throwing a weakened, damaged heart into fatal arrest. They give their patients two sedative drugs, promethazine and pethidine (a synthetic equivalent of morphine), to keep them in a light sleep for one to seven days; the average has been 2½ days. Nurses wake the patient three times a day for hygiene, to take liquid food...
...even more improbable future home: the Arizona desert. For $2,460,000, California-based McCulloch Oil Corp. purchased the 136-year-old River Thames span from the City of London. The company will reassemble the 1,005-ft. structure over a canal at Lake Havasu City, a resort, light-industry and retirement town...
Married. John Osborne, 38, one of Britain's original angry young playwrights (Look Back in Anger), who of late has geared down to cruising around in a Rolls-Royce; and Jill Bennett, 36, actress with a comic part in the forthcoming Charge of the Light Brigade, which hubby tried, but failed, to script; he for the fourth time, she for the second; in London...
...them blips every 1.27 seconds, another at 1.19-second intervals-close to the 1.34-second period previously reported for pulsar 1. Pulsar 4 pulses significantly faster: every quarter of a second. In addition, Hewish estimated that the fast-pulsing source is only 50 light-years away, compared with the 200-light-year distance he calculated for pulsar...
Checking on the faint blue star that Cambridge University astronomers have associated with pulsar 1, Astronomer William Liller located it on a number of Harvard Observatory photographs taken between 1897 and 1952. During that interval, he reported, the average visible light from the star had not varied significantly. And in California, Astronomer Allan Sandage announced that he plans to train the 200-in. Mount Palomar telescope on the blue star to detect any second-by-second variation in its light intensity that might coincide with pulsar 1's radio variation...