Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proven skullbasher: in Italy's first chaotic postwar days he tangled with the Communists in (by his own estimate) 1,300 street brawls, mowing them down with a chunk of railroad track. And he has cold nerve: when two madmen terrorized a school full of children near Milan in 1956, Tom defied the maniacs' gunfire, closed in to capture them...
Long before dawn, near the side of the road in Scottsdale, Ariz., the cops came upon the parked car and its occupant, slumped drowsily over the wheel. Police sniffed the afterglow, hauled the occupant in for a drunkometer test. Then, under a state law allowing such arrests even though the car may not be moving at the time, the cops booked angered, aroused Rancher Elliott Roosevelt, 48, of Scottsdale for drunken driving...
Numb. With admirable attention to the truth, the Goodyear Theater (NBC) presented The Obenauf Story, the heroic accomplishment of Lieut. James Edward Obenauf, who saved himself, a fellow officer and a $2,000,000 airplane when he landed a crippled six-jet B-47 at Dyess Air Force Base near Abilene, Texas (TIME, May 12). As Obie, the young father, Actor Kerwin Mathews was at first quietly convincing. Later, when Obenauf found himself at 34,000 feet in command of a burning plane, all the rest of the crew except a navigator bailed out-and the navigator dying of hypoxia...
From Twin or Fetus. This "autograft" principle was the basis of U.S. efforts to arrest leukemia. A four-year-old girl in Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, in Cooperstown, N.Y., was near death, and anti-leukemia drugs would no longer give any relief. Dr. E. Donnall Thomas told an American Cancer Society seminar at Excelsior Springs, Mo. how he then placed the child between two cobalt "bombs" (equivalent to 2,000,000-volt X-ray machines) and subjected her to 800 r.-more than had ever before been given intentionally to a human being. Then he injected marrow cells taken from...
...Promised Land, Moses stopped again at Sinai, climbed to the peak and received the Tablets of the Law. Among Christians, Mount Sinai is also revered as the shrine and resting place of Saint Catherine of Alexandria. To Moslems, it is sacred as the spot where, on a boulder near the peak, the camel bearing Mohammed to heaven left the imprint of one foot...