Word: tulip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tulip." Thanks largely to chemists like Stanley (who now runs the University of California's Virus Laboratory) and the electron microscopists, a virus can now be defined as an infectious particle that has no metabolism of its own and reproduces itself only by taking over the metabolic processes of the living cell it invades. Viruses are the ultimate parasites. They parasitize everything in nature from bacteria and flowering plants up through invertebrates such as mosquitoes, and the vertebrates from fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals...
...first half hour or so, Hollywood's Holly (Audrey Hepburn) is not much different from Capote's. She has kicked the weed and lost the illegitimate child she was having, but she is still jolly Holly, the child bride from Tulip, Texas, who at 15 runs away to Hollywood to find some of the finer things of life-like shoes. At 18, she is established in a posh Manhattan flat and living off the fatheads of the land. The flat is furnished with a bathtub (sawed in half to make a sofa), a refrigerator (containing a pair...
Although in later installments (previewed last week for the press) the program fills the air with Messerschmitts and Supermarine Spitfires, shows Panzer tracks across the tulip beds of The Netherlands and bomb explosions muffled in the soft sands of Dunkirk, the series is much more than newsreel shots and selected quotes. Its staff of nearly 250 has also collected brief, extraordinary commentaries from the low and the mighty of the Churchill years-housewives. Tommies, Clement Attlee, Eisenhower, Truman, De Gaulle. One of the best offers a light footnote to dark tension. A Thames boatman remembers his Channel crossing...
...boldly do the Singapore kidnapers strike that the millionaires have given up favorite haunts: no more nights at the Tanjong Rhu club over cool drinks and mah-jongg, no more rides home on a quiet road where moonlight filters through acacia and tulip trees. To protect themselves, some millionaires, like the movie-mogul Shaw brothers, reportedly pay regular tribute to the underworld. Others have bought barbed wire and snarling watchdogs. A few take the precaution of calling ahead to their destination whenever they go out, and if they fail to arrive on time, an alarm is sounded...
...into an international research building for other companies to try on a rental basis before making a full commitment. Next week, to lure more potential customers to view Sterling Forest -and incidentally turn a tidy tourist profit-Dowling will open the world's most lavish tulip garden with 1,500,000 bulbs planted over 125 acres...