Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Middle East. For half a year, Cousteau's crew was aswirl in terrifying hammerheads, blue whalers and tiger, shovelnose and white-tipped sharks-"by whatever name," the narrator said of the breed, "a fearsome brute, a perfect killing machine." But Cousteau's red-capped divers fearlessly ran off experiments right in their menacing midst. One crewman rode the back of a 60-ton whale shark. Others worked in pairs, back to back, each carrying a shark billy to fend off attackers on all flanks. When the quarry was most frenzied or aggressive, the explorers made their studies from...
Louis Block, 58, a retired fireman, had suffered a succession of heart attacks while he ran a radio-TV business in The Bronx. His heart grew bigger but weaker, causing a corresponding lung deterioration. Block was referred to Brooklyn's Maimonides Medical Center, where Surgeon Adrian Kantrowitz had already attempted the transplant of a baby's heart (TIME...
...plan ran afoul of Surveyor 7's first glitch. After firing a small explosive charge to free the box, the scientists began lowering it on a nylon cord. Halfway down, the box stuck. Using the spacecraft's TV camera to hunt for the source of the trouble and working with duplicate models, JPL scientists and engineers from JPL and Hughes Aircraft, designer of the moon robot, struggled to set it free. Twice they nudged it with the digger arm. No luck. All it did was swing a bit. Then they tried again, using the arm to steady...
When Paul Wagler '69, then Operations Director of the club, ran last year for the chairmanship of Harvard Students for a Democratic Society and seriously said he felt he could serve both groups effectively, talk of censuring him faded away quickly. In the '50's such behavior would have been considered scandalous for a Republican...
...last two club elections have not been dull. The 1966 ticket was unopposed, but a "gorilla" ran against Scott for vice-president. (The gorilla was disqualified because only homo sapiens are eligible for club membership.) Last year the "group" who had backed the gorilla reappeared; one of them called the club a farce, singing "We've Got Trouble Right Here in YR's" to the tune from The Music...