Word: namee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES No RSV, Please Each year, 10,000 U.S. infants die of lower-respiratory infections - more than half of them caused by a microbe with the forbidding name of "respiratory syncytial virus." Researchers have now devised a new vaccine against...
...into other business, including a venture that developed a lint-free wiping cloth. Then he and two colleagues pooled $18,000 to launch the Diners' Club, which started off by enticing 14 Manhattan restaurants to honor its credit cards. The club quickly became a success - and its name a misnomer - as hotels, gas stations, car-rental agencies and a host of other business establishments signed...
...employees wanted an American owner to take over the 98-year-old company. They remembered only too well what happened to Heinrich Lanz AG, which in 1956, at age 97, was bought out by the U.S.'s Deere & Co. Deere replaced the German management, struck the Lanz name from products, disregarded the labor union - and has almost consistently lost money on Lanz...
...name of all the past and present editors of the Partisan Review did Jack Kerouac, cult leader of post-World War II intellectual vagrants, ever attain standing as a member (let alone chieftain) of the avantgarde? Vanity of Duluoz, his best book, is a picaresque novel in a tradition as old as Tristram Shandy and about as avant-garde as Laurence Sterne-a man in holy orders, puckish though...
...better (Andersonville). The new novel's problem is simple enough: What happens when a twice-widowed white woman falls in love with her male mulatto cook? Pretty much what one would expect down on the Gulf Coast in 1854. He is handsome and graceful and goes by the name of Beauty Beast. He knows what to do with herbs and French sauces, and he can play Mozart and lesser composers on the pianoforte. His mistress, Sidney Shallop, has never known anything more moving...