Word: spills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pattern elsewhere in the South. Negro travelers are still likely to find gas stations with three rest rooms-one for white men, one for white women and a third for Negroes. Hotels and motels set aside "Negro rooms," which-somehow-never face the swimming pool. In restaurants, waitresses "accidentally" spill coffee on Negroes, overcharge them or simply ignore them. Nonetheless, Justice Department officials are pleased by the extent of voluntary compliance with the rights law. "It all depends upon how you look at it," said one. "If you measure it from the standpoint of 100% perfection, you get one picture...
...yourselfer, Roto-motive Industries' Ski-Craft ($795). It consists of a 24-h.p. engine mounted on a streamlined flotation raft that pulls along the skier at the end of 8-ft.-long handles. The skier controls the speed with a hand throttle; if he takes a spill, this releases the throttle, stopping the engine and bringing the craft to a halt within a few feet...
...about a sorely put-upon young man. The Advocate limits itself to excerpts. The hero ricochets helplessly from one bum rap to another, in a "world we perceive too well." His mother suckles ciggies, his father strangles cats. All the absurdities of life pass before him after a bicycle spill knocks him out cold. Sometimes Saltonstall's descriptive passages relieve the self-consciousness of his story; more often they compound...
...Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich, 79, in Chicago's Billings Hospital after a mild heart attack; Italian Foreign Minister and U.N. General Assembly President Amintore Fanfani, 57, in Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital after he ruptured a quadriceps tendon in his right leg in a spill outside a friend's house; France's gossiping Existentialist Simonede Beauvoir, 57, fetched home by Old Comrade Jean-Paul Sartre to recover in Paris from badly bruised legs and chest after her car collided with a truck in Burgundy...
...colleagues in the New England Journal of Medicine, may be something as routine as a therapeutic abortion or surgical repair of a woman's genitalia after a difficult delivery. The surgery, they suspect-on the basis of a near-fatal case of PPLO blood poisoning-may help to spill PPLO into the bloodstream. British researchers have also incriminated PPLO in puerperal fevers and fevers following gynecologic surgery...