Word: sunburns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Greasy Red Stuff. As evidence that most people are more than willing to risk sunburn's dangers, store shelves are crammed with dozens of suntan lotions and creams. They prevent sunburn only to the extent that they block out burning ultraviolet rays from the sun, and they allow true tanning only to the extent that they let those same ultraviolet rays through. Perhaps the most effective sun-screening agent of all is a dark red veterinary petroleum jelly, used during World War II for life-raft survival. Trouble is, the stuff is indeed red (although it loses its color...
After a warm week out in Goldwater Country, Pundit Walter Lippmann acquired "a fine sunburn" and some interesting thoughts. "I have learned,'' wrote Lippmann from Arizona, "that we must distinguish between a war party-of which I have seen no traces out here-and a war whoop party, which likes to be warlike but does not want war." What the whoopers want in Cuba, he said, "are the fruits of a successful war without having to fight." But. he added, "only an invasion, and an invasion only in the first days before the casualty lists come in. would...
...what will ultimately happen. But we feel that in a world of so much force, we have to be able to do as well as anybody else." "We Puny Things." In the predawn darkness of July 16, 1945, dance music echoed from loudspeakers as men smeared their faces with sunburn cream and waited ten miles from a 100-ft. tower in the desert near Alamogordo. Some had been working and waiting three years for this moment-and when that tower ignited at 5:30 a.m. in the world's first atomic explosion, the flash was so blinding that those...
...Shepard's reactions to space flight. A group of physicians reported on the astronaut's physical condition before the flight and after: his temperature was slightly higher after landing, and his heart was beating a little faster than normal. A broken toenail and a small patch of sunburn were noted as preflight lesions...
Last week, abed in Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital, Rafael had little more than bad sunburn and dehydration to show for his ordeal. His nurse was earnestly trying to teach him English, but so far, his vocabulary was largely confined to one word, which for him clearly summed up his present condition and future prospects. "Okay," said Rafael Saavedra over and over again. "Okay...