Word: tiller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chief forester for the Grand Duke of Baden, Karl von Drais had miles of woodland paths to patrol. To ease his task, he put together a weird contraption with two wheels, a saddle and a steering tiller, propelled himself by pushing off with his legs and coasting. When he rode it into town, the citizens of Karlsruhe hooted and chased him off the streets. One hundred and fifty years later, the plight of the bicyclist is still dire. "People in pickup trucks throw beer cans at us," says Washington, D.C., Cyclist Ray Matthews Jr. "Motorists keep trying to push...
...uses an Ian Fleming story to illustrate the U.N.'s efforts to control narcotics, and the cast is a U.N. in itself: Senta Berger, Stephen Boyd, Yul Brynner, Angie Dickinson, Hugh Griffith, Jack Hawkins, Rita Hayworth, Trevor Howard, E. G. Marshall, Marcello Mastroianni, Gilbert Roland, Omar Sharif, Nadja Tiller, Eli Wallach and Princess Grace Kelly...
They are: David J. Baker '66, Johnathan P. Goldman '66, Alan E. Lazar, Craig Donaldson, Frederick P. Schaffer '68, John T. Sackton '68, George M. Tiller '68, Henry W. Corbett '66, Lucy Moore '66, Virginia Wiesell David A. Link '66, Charlene S. Chang '66, Kate G. Wenner '69, Patrick J. McGinity '66, Alan H. Venable '66, and James S. Wylie...
...says. Her father, Anatole, was the rakish owner of a Montmartre restaurant called La Cloche d'Or, popular in the '20s with the show-business crowd. Her mother, an English dancer named Kathleen Buckley, had come to Paris at the age of 17 to dance with the Tiller Girls at the Folies-Bergére. She met Anatole at the restaurant, and they were married when she was 20. The Moreau family, descended from a long line of farmers, never quite welcomed her into the fold. Jeanne was born in Paris in 1928, and a few years later...
...first week or two, a few of the short sleepers felt worse on enforced rest, but within a month virtually all were getting eight hours of sleep or more, just as Dr. Tiller prescribed. They were more relaxed, had fewer complaints, and were less prone to become apprehensive, dizzy or confused. Some of the tensions of the aged, Dr. Tiller concludes, may be due to something as simple and obvious as "a long-standing deficit of rest, sleep or both...