Word: mel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only the oil at Hassi Messaoud is stalled, but that of the recently discovered rich Hassi R'Mel field (estimated reserves 700 million bbl.), only 280 miles from Algiers, and the 20 boreholes in the Edjelé field (capacity 700 million bbl.), where the oil is only 1,350 ft. underground. The same applies to the huge natural-gas reservoir at Djebel Berga (2,000,000 cu. ft. a day) and vast storehouses of industrial metals in other areas of the Sahara (TIME, July 1). Plans for railroads and pipelines tapping these resources and bringing them...
Reno's release from tension was first suggested by former Giant Mel Ott, now a Detroit sportscaster, who noticed that tenseness was hurting Bertoia's swing at the plate. Tiger Trainer Jack Homel took the message to Reno, and the young man (22) promptly tried Equanil, later switched to Sedamyl. Reno, it turned out, was not the first Detroit athlete to try tranquilizers. Says Osteopath Richard Thompson, team physician for the Detroit Lions football team: "We used them on at least five Lions last year, and we intend to continue to use them." The Tigers' Dr. Luther...
...Mel Alsbury Jr., 27, of Hollywood, who piloted a Chrysler Imperial Southampton to victory last year...
...classes. The rest were automatically ruled out of the results because their male partners did better. Among the women drivers: Mrs. Mildred Alsbury, mother of the Alsbury brothers, who piloted an Imperial to official second place in the sweepstakes, was knocked out of the race by her champion son, Mel. But the women drivers came so near to matching the men's average (20.23 miles per gallon v. the men's 20.64) that they confidently promised rougher competition for the men next year. Said Mrs. Alsbury: "I hope this helps to prove that women are just as good...
Shinbone Alley (book by Joe Darion & Mel Brooks; music and lyrics by George Kleinsinger & Joe Darion) celebrates Don Marquis' reasonably immortal archy and mehitabel. Supreme among literary cockroaches is the archy who typewrote free-verse memos to his newspaper-columnist "boss" by hurling himself head-downwards on the keys (though he could never manage capital letters). Gamest and gamiest of cats is the mehitabel that archy reported on, who insists that she was once Cleopatra and though bedraggled and back-alleyish now, is always a lady and toujours gai. The two friends are an easy pair to feel tender...