Word: trailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another possibility is an internal telemetering system to report vital information such as heart beat, blood pressure, brain waves, etc. A man with such a device healed inside his skin would need to trail no wires. His physical condition could be checked from a distance without his knowing that a doctor was listening to his insides...
...life was devoted to this quest, and it was still not ended when he died in a car crash at 46. In these notebooks (the first of three volumes to be published), Camus recorded his early speculating, tentative theories and spontaneous observations. Like notes found scattered along a trail, they not only indicate his destination but also why he chose it. This volume covers his youth in his native Algeria, summer's sojourn in Europe, and the first somber years in occupied Paris...
...last week Norman Dyhrenfurth, 44, leader of last May's U.S. assault on Mount Everest, joined another rarefied company. At White House ceremonies, President Kennedy handed him the National Geographic Society's seldom awarded (only 21 times in 57 years) Hubbard Medal, which put him among such trail blazers as Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Colonel Charles Lindbergh and-fittingly-Sir Edmund Hillary. The president also passed out replicas of the gold medal to the rest of Dyhrenfurth's 20-man American team, and to Nawang Gombu, the diminutive Sherpa mountaineer who helped Expedition Member James Whittaker...
...stationed at the British embassy in Washington in 1950. When Burgess and Maclean eloped to Russia in 1951, Philby was forced to resign from the Foreign Office amidst a flurry of rumors that he was "the third man" who had tipped them off that the police were on their trail. Later, this charge was indignantly denied by Harold Macmillan, then Foreign Secretary, who personally vouched for Philby's good character. The Foreign Office even asked the Observer to hire Philby as a correspondent because "it seemed unfair that so able a man should be finding difficulty in earning...
Breakfast in Bed. In favorable country a trail four or five days old took Schaller to the gorillas within a few hours. Sometimes they fled when they saw him, but usually they showed mild interest and only slight fear. After a few encounters, Schaller and the animals were on the best of terms. He often crept close while they were bedding down for the night, and he slept less than 100 ft. away. He reports restfully that they never snore. But wide awake they are far from silent. Sometimes they purr like large contented cats, and for special occasions they...