Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expected, Hammond told a heart-disease symposium at Albany Medical College last week, the death rates after age 40 are higher for both men and women if they smoke cigarettes, if they are overweight, if they have high blood pressure, and if they don't exercise much. This holds true for deaths from both heart attacks and strokes...
...wife as wing-walker. Wally himself soloed at 16, and went into naval aviation soon after graduation from Annapolis. He flew 90 combat missions in Korea, shot down one MIG and scored one "possible." On the first unsuccessful attempt to launch Gemini 6, when the Titan booster belched smoke and flames without lifting off, Schirra correctly decided that there was no danger of an explosion. He made a split-second decision not to damage the spacecraft by pulling the seat-ejection ring. A few days later, Gemini 6, still intact, carried him aloft to achieve man's first rendezvous...
...These people are great for annoying the police," said an officer from Boston's Tactical Patrol Service last Friday. "It's difficult to make an arrest for use of narcotics because they love to taunt the police by smoking ordinary cigarettes and tricking us into placing them in custody." That's the problem, he said, with the Sunday smoke-ins on the Cambridge Common. "We do make arrests, though...
...plus a hefty percentage, and he will make even more from his new projects, notably a movie of Brecht's Galileo, starring Rod Steiger. At his bachelor villa near Rome, Zeffirelli remains the low-pressure gran signore, entertaining ten or twelve friends for lunch, inhaling gusts of Winston smoke from fingertip-held cigarettes. His braggadocio extends even to his genealogy. "One day my father showed up with an armful of documents," he recalls. "He finally had documented proof of my origins. I told myself that it really wasn't so bad being a bastard now that I knew...
...Russians were hardly less bitter than the internecine wrangling between the two commanders. Finally, a stupid order was fatally misinterpreted. As thousands of Russian soldiers watched in disbelief, some 700 men of Hussars, Lancers and Dragoons -the Light Brigade-charged a massed front of several thousands. When the cordite smoke blew away, only 195 British soldiers were alive...