Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Watching Hope among. people, says Artist Marion Pike, a family friend, is "a most moving experience." As he ambles through a crowd, eyes light and smiles turn on in swift progression, like a series of lamps brightening up a corridor. What the crowds, large or small, recognize is not only a man who has made them laugh but one who, without sentimentality, ostentation or ballyhoo, has become a national hero. The trophy room in Hope's North Hollywood home is filled like an overendowed museum with awards, honorary degrees and gifts that would be the envy of a Nobel...
...first transplanted human heart was in place. But it had not been beating since Denise died. Would it work? Barnard stepped back and ordered electrodes placed on each side of the heart and the current (25 watt-seconds) applied. The heart leaped at the shock and began a swift beat. Dr. Barnard's heart leaped too. Through his mask, he exclaimed unprofessionally but pardonably, "Christ, it's going to work!" Work...
...time bettered the old cage record, set in 1962 by Army's RobinLingle, by nearly three seconds. Shaw finished second, 25 yards behind the swift Englander. McDonald was fourth...
...writers had sent you their ripped out arms and legs with 'This is a poem' scrawled on them in lipstick.") but he could write nothing kind about their poems. And even a few of his memorialists (Allen Tate, for instance) clearly bear scars from the lash of his terrible swift tongue...
Among the takeover possibilities that are said to interest Simon is Swift & Co., which recently announced an executive change of its own. President Robert Reneker, 55, becomes sole chief executive on Dec. 1 when Board Chairman Porter M. Jarvis retires, taking his title with him. Reneker made his reputation in sales and is the first man to reach the top spot without a solid grounding in meat operations-which suggests that the company, having branched into such nonfood items as chemicals and insurance, plans further diversification. Admittedly curious about rumors of Simon's interest in his company, Reneker claims...