Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Bebe Daniels, 70, film star of the 1920s and '30s; of lung cancer; in London. Born into a theatrical family, she made her stage debut when her mother carried her onstage at the age of ten weeks. At four she was a trouper; at seven she was in movies. "Whatever I missed as a child," she once said, "I didn't mind missing." At 14 Bebe became Harold Lloyd's leading lady and at 18 achieved stardom after she signed with Cecil B. De Mille, later playing opposite Wallace Reid and Rudolph Valentino. She married Actor...
...leaders of the United Mine Workers and the coal industry raised key objections. For one, strip mining is more than twice as productive per man day as deep mining. For another, it is safer; about 3,000 of the U.S.'s 104,500 underground coal miners have "black lung" disease, and another 200 die each year in roof falls and related accidents. Whatever the controversial bill's fate, observers were amazed that...
...considered quake-resistant. Surprisingly, only three persons were killed: an ambulance driver and two respiratory patients, who were not seriously injured but died because they were separated from their breathing equipment. At the nearby Veterans Administration Hospital in San Fernando, by contrast, a patient survived only because his iron lung protected him from being crushed by a fallen ceiling...
Sulfur Tax. The President also took aim at sulfur oxides, which he said are "among the most damaging air pollutants" and are "linked to increased incidence of diseases such as bronchitis and lung cancer." Nixon proposes a tax on coal-smoke emissions (main source: power plants), both to curb them and to fund research for developing cleaner fuels. It is doubtful that Congress will approve. Last year the House Ways and Means Committee squashed a similar tax on leaded gasoline, a measure that Nixon now seeks again...
...forester, he aimed to enjoy the outdoors even more than he had as a state employee. But as Jacobson, an advanced skier, whooshed down a slope at Sierra Ski Ranch, he lost control, hit a tree and broke his left elbow, shoulder blade and four ribs, which punctured a lung. Now incapacitated for at least two months, he has become an unhappy statistic-one of this year's roughly 100,000 injured U.S. skiers, more than a third of them with broken arms or legs...