Word: loops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Twelve federal disease detectives were gumshoeing through the normally placid Chicago suburb of Niles (13 miles northwest of the Loop) last week, on what looked like a hot trail in the hunt for a cause of acute leukemia (blood cancer) in childhood. An outbreak of cases in that community suggests for the first time that childhood leukemia, while definitely not infectious in any ordinary sense, somehow spreads from some common source...
...forces. He learned to recognize useful stars. He took training in desert survival and practiced squirming out of a Mercury capsule while it was tossing on a choppy sea. He learned about weightlessness by flying in high-speed airplanes as they curved over the top half of an outside loop. He rode in a MASTIF (Multiple Axis Space Test Inertia Facility), a training device that tumbles on three axes, and learned how to bring it to an even keel. In quieter moments he studied astronautics, aviation biology, astronomy, meteorology and astrophysics. Always, he kept in top physical shape...
...individual stars are David Rawle as the beatnik son of the hoods' boss and Brian Doyle as a female soc rel researcher doing her master's on deviant behavior (trying to get the "scoop on the loop," as Rawle says). In the second act these two put on a marvelous song and dance called the "Planned Obsolescence Mambo." Rawle also has two excellent duets with John TenBrook, as Tuesday Kowalczyk (a muscular lady cop). Doyle has a way of exclaiming "That's fascinating!" that can bring almost any scene to a riotous close...
...heart attack; in San Diego. Though he whooshed the big hydroplanes through the water for 27 years, Fageol insisted that each race "scared hell out of me," finally retired in 1955 after his Slo-Mo-Shun V soared 70 ft. into the air at 165 m.p.h., looped the loop, and dumped Driver Fageol into Seattle's Lake Washington with four fractured vertebrae, four broken ribs, a punctured lung and a permanently damaged heart...
Cornell, coached by George Cointe, has had a large turnover in personnel since finishing with a 1-4 record in League competition, one notch ahead of the Crimson in the six-team loop. The Red are strongest in foil and epee, in which several lettermen return...