Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kidneys, transplanted to Jonathan Van Wyk, 10, was still working well.) Brooklyn's Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, whose own heart-transplant operation had failed two weeks earlier, expressed his sorrow, then added: "However, I believe that the operation performed by Dr. Christiaan Barnard represents a great step forward...
...late-show fans of the Road cycle know, gags took precedence over plot, locale and plausibility. Lamour would pop up in snowy Alaska during the Klondike gold rush wearing a sarong. The main goal of Hope and Crosby seemed to be to step on each other's lines, and the script was a dead letter. Once, when the writer happened onto the set, Hope called: "If you hear any of your own dialogue, yell bingo." A typical exchange, from Road to Utopia -Lamour: "You're facetious." Hope: "Keep politics out of this." Yet by 1962, when the great...
...sick on vacations, though he does go fishing about once a year. It's hardly any fun, he complains, "the fish don't applaud." His stamina comes from golf, a lot of walking and a lot of working. He'll launch into an old soft-shoe step while on the phone, sleeps irregularly but can cork off for a few seconds any old time. Wherever he goes, he takes his masseur, Fred Miron, who gives Hope a 45-minute rub every day. He loves practical jokes and mechanical toys; one favorite is a battery-driven Frankenstein monster...
Last week scientists moved a step closer to making the dream possible. In Palo Alto, two biochemists at the Stanford University School of Medicine reported that they had successfully synthesized a virus that could both infect bacteria and reproduce itself...
...Chapin Jr., the machine "could eliminate many problems that up to this point have made electric-type cars impractical." The car is being developed with an ultimate capability of up to 50 m.p.h. for a range of 150 miles between battery charges. That would be a big step beyond existing designs for electrics, whose usefulness is severely restricted by an 80-mile maximum range on a single battery charge...