Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...face, a familiar Gothic landmark in the capital, now window-dresses record emporia throughout the country. His smasheroo album is in the front ranks of Billboard's "Top LPs," sandwiched between the sound track from The Wild Angels and Simon and Garfunkel's Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme. He has made appearances on the Johnny Carson Show and Hollywood Palace, and his name will soon join Clem Kadiddlehopper's on the Red Skelton Show. At 71, Everett McKinley Dirksen, minority leader of the U.S. Senate, has made the scene...
Getting man into orbit has already repaid the effort many times. The monitoring devices needed to keep track of astronauts' physical condition have now been adapted for U.S. hospitals, enabling a single nurse to keep track of the condition of many patients perhaps half a mile of corridors away. Today, as a result of space advances, cardiac patients may wear internally implanted electronic pacemakers. Doctors are talking confidently of birth control without pills or intrauterine devices as they experiment with a space-perfected system for monitoring bodily temperature. Refined by aerospace engineers, lasers are finding more and more uses...
...When 1 get back to Yonkers," he tells Tina at first, "I'm going to build me a house with an asphalt garden, with no leaves, no trees, no grass and no jungle. I'm going to build it right next to the race track, and I'm going to sit at home all day drinking beer and watching the television...
...Texas Southern University's James Hines: the 60-yd. dash at the N.A.I.A. indoor track meet in Kansas City, tying the world indoor record of 5.9 sec. once in a preliminary heat, again in the finals. In a meet at Los Angeles, Jerry Proctor, a 17-year-old from Pasadena, broad-jumped 25 ft. 101 in., and U.S.C.'s Bob Seagren polevaulted 17 ft. 2 in.-1 in. above his own world indoor mark-only to have the leap nullified because his pole fell into the landing pit. > Drin: the 1¼-mile Strub Stakes, first...
...measure as little as ten feet in width and five miles in length. Paraguay, a landlocked dictatorship the size of California, has only 450 miles of paved roads, and in Venezuela, which is three times larger than Italy, the state railroad moves on a total of 220 miles of track. The armchair traveler learns that dueling is still legal in Uruguay, that Bolivian jails do not feed the prisoners (who must depend on handouts from friends or relatives), and that Recife, a Brazilian coast city of 1,000,000 population, has 40,000 registered prostitutes. Colombia boasts more than...