Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During her maiden voyage of a year, the 800-bed Consolation will make ports of call where invited, give native doctors a chance to learn the latest American techniques, train medical aides in such fundamentals as vaccinations and blood tests, take patients aboard for treatment, including surgery. In turn, American crew members will get a firsthand look at some of the world's ills...
Piaf sings all this with the authority of a little girl who used to sing for her supper on the streets of Montmartre, but was too proud to pick up the pennies. A friend did that for her. Nor did her later success ever take her far from trouble. A 1949 airplane crash killed World Middleweight Champion Marcel Cerdan, who is still remembered as her great love. A marriage to French Singer Jacques Peals ended in divorce. Says she: "I am a very faithful woman, very serious about marriage. I have a lover who came with me to America...
...Arkansas delta, he has been singing about sorrow with spectacular success. In four years, half a hundred Cash-composed songs have sold more than 6,000,000 records. The biggest Cash hit, Walk the Line, passed the million mark with ease; the latest, Don't Take Your Guns to Town, is well on its way to repeating that performance...
...time his 70th birthday rolls around in April, Benton expects to be attacking the wall of the Truman Library. Says he: "I am going to take all the time I can get to finish these, so I won't fall on my face. But I'll deliver them, all right...
...engineer), is a "hyperbolic" system that uses groups of four stations. One of them is a master, the others "slaves" arranged around it 60-100 miles apart. The Decca receiver is set to receive the waves of all three slave stations, and measure the microseconds of time they take to reach it. When the waves from two stations arrive at the same time, the airplane must be at the same distance from both stations...