Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most fascinating reports at last week's New Orleans seminar of the American Cancer Society was made not by a doctor or biologist, but by an aeronautical engineer. Clarence Cone Jr., of NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia, was assigned by the space agency to study the effect on cell division of any radiation that astronauts might encounter. Cone knew that normal cells, grown in the laboratory, will not multiply and crowd one another beyond a certain point. But cancer cells lack this "contact inhibition," and are joined by intimate bonds or "bridges" of cellular material...
Although the tennis team won only one of its matches on the spring tour, the team is optimistic, because of their victory over the University of Virginia which climaxed the trip...
...better spirits, the six edged the University of Virginia, 5-4. Levin, Jarvis and Oxford won their matches quickly, and Washauer finally got the crucial fourth point winning, 7-5, in the third set. Levin and Jarvis won their doubles to clinch the victory. Terrell and Oxford again lost in the third, and Washauer and Neilson also played three sets before succumbing...
...journey could be measured better in years than in miles or hours. As the nine-car train rumbled through Appalachian passes, it would cross decades of U.S. expansion as well?the scarred hills of West Virginia, the black earth of Illinois, the railroad yards of St. Louis and Kansas City. When it reached the prairies of Abilene, it would arrive in another era. In spirit, if not in time, the contemporary chapel on the grounds of the Eisenhower Center where he will be buried was not so distant from the Abilene he knew as a youth...
Raquel's next projects are Shipment of Tarts, a period comedy, Tilda, a story of a woman chasing her kidnaped son, and We Only Kill Each Other, a biography of Chicago Gangster Bugsy Siegel and his moll Virginia Hill. The roles are hardly calculated to win Academy Awards, but at least they call for more than pouts and poses. "I feel people are trying to bury me in a sea of C cups," she laments. There is little likelihood that she will go under. "Marilyn couldn't fight it because she wasn't strong enough," Raquel theorizes...