Word: neared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East Germany's top Communist brass is concerned, proletarian equality is for others. For 20 top Communists and their families, a special construction crew is putting finishing touches on a palatial housing development on 186 acres of forest land near Lake Liepnitz, 15 miles north of Berlin...
...find one of them danged bugs behind danged near every bush up here...
...sibs was the secretary's mother and patient No. 1. As they worked down the line, the neurologists found that at least five sons and two daughters in the third generation were narcoleptics. One first noted the trouble on guard duty in the Army, has since had many "near accidents" from dozing while driving. Another insisted that he was not really a dangerous driver because a "close shave" would wake him and he had not yet had a serious accident. One of the sons had been disciplined in the Army for sleeping on duty, became a truck driver...
Still hardest hit were the year's first epidemic areas. Kansas City, Mo. and Des Moines (TIME, July 13). Near epidemic rates were noted in Little Rock, Ark., Wichita, Kans., Lincoln, Neb., Montgomery, Ala. and Oklahoma City. Clusters of cases occurred in New Haven, Conn., Yonkers, N.Y., Charleston, W. Va. and Nashville, Tenn. True to the early-season pattern, outbreaks were mainly in slum areas. Though many victims had had one or two shots of vaccine, few had had the three-dose course, fewer still the fourth (booster) shot now recommended...
...Issy heliport and finally hopped onto a second motorcycle for the last spurt to the Arc. His time, including 4 min. for the last 4½-mile motorcycle dash: 57 min. 47 sec. "Sissy stuff," roared an R.A.F. rival. "I think the time can be brought down to near enough 40 minutes." That it was. At the end, R.A.F. Squadron Leader Charles Maughan, 35, got the last bit of ground speed from the motorcycle-helicopter system, picked up precious minutes by flying a transonic Hawker Hunter jet on the long cross-Channel air leg. His winning time...