Word: mins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...u.C.L.A. researchers have reported that herpes viruses can live on towels for up to 72 hr. and on toilet seats for at least four. In one test, a seat used by a woman with thigh lesions showed live herpes viruses 90 min. later. But most doctors down-play the U.C.L.A. study. Dr. Harold Kessler of Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's, in Chicago, says herpetics should use their own towels, though the chances of passing on the infection via a towel are only about 1%. The virus dies so fast on a toilet seat, he says, that the risk of infection...
London's strangest drama of the summer season continued in the Bow Street Magistrates' Court last week. Michael Fagan, 33, the unemployed laborer who had stunned Britain by wandering into Queen Elizabeth's bedroom three weeks ago, was brought into court for a bizarre 17-min. bail hearing. (Bail was denied.) At the same time, a Scotland Yard investigation of the affair revealed just how somnolent the Queen's protection had been during Fagan's peregrination through Buckingham Palace...
...extensive royal stamp collection is displayed. That set off an alarm, but it was ignored. Fagan went back out the same window, shinnied up a drainpipe, removed his sandals and socks, and climbed to another window, which had just been unlocked by a maid. For the next 15 min. or so, reported Dellow, "he moved through the corridors of the palace unchallenged. One member of the palace domestic staff remembers seeing him, but his behavior was not sufficiently suspicious to cause her to raise the alarm." He also slipped through warning devices that had been improperly adjusted and finally, Fagan...
...lady mouse Mrs. Brisby, enlists the rats' aid to save her family from imminent death; she falls down a hole and into a world of effulgent psychedelia. The Bluth artists boast that more than 600 colors were used in the 1.5 million drawings that compose this 82-min. adventure. The eye of a Douanier Rousseau might discern each hue; others can simply open their eyes, and their mouths, in appreciative pleasure...
...that only when I looked down and saw the floor did I know that we had done the trick." Actually, what the Flying Vazquezes accomplished together on July 10 in Tucson was much more than a trick. It was an athletic feat equivalent to the breaking of the 4-min. mile: the first quadruple somersault performed before a regular circus audience...