Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diversified types as Henry Ford II, former President Hoover, Bing Crosby, Richard Nixon, Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Lucius Clay, retired General Albert Wedemeyer (Barry's host), former Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, and Old Aviator Jimmy Doolittle. There is al ways an eager waiting list of at least 850-and some people wait 15 years before they're tapped for membership...
...dazzling white snaked their way through tortuous drills, finally spelling out "July 26." Then, in a hilarious pantomime, 640 youngsters filed onto the field to symbolize beisbol as it is under the dread imperialist yoke -going through the motions of batting, pitching and running in agonizing slow motion. But wait! Now came the revolution-and the youths were happily scampering around like Little Leaguers. "The sport of yesterday was commercial and a means of making money," explained the program notes. "The exploitation of man by man on all fronts. In sports today, it is wholesome and pure." Then came...
...cancer cells, and stay in them longer, than they do in normal cells. Tetracycline has the further peculiarity of glowing yellow under ultraviolet light. To put these peculiarities to use, doctors generally give suspected cancer patients a dose of tetracycline four times a day for two days, then wait 36 hours for the drug to leave all the body's cells except those that may be cancerous. After that, samples of body fluid drained from the areas involved are centrifuged, spread on filter paper, dried and examined under ultraviolet light. "The smallest pinpoint of bright yellow fluorescence" is considered...
...Madison Avenues, infested with prostitutes and dope addicts. Up a ways, at 118th and Lenox Avenue, is "junkie's corner," and at the New York Central overpass at 125th Street, over which suburban commuters ride every day between air-conditioned offices and well-kept homes, Negro prostitutes wait for white johns who know the spot and drive by in their cars...
...from a collapsible mobile theater touring the five Boroughs* (TIME, July 10), and at present in Central Park an excellent production of Othello, with James Earl Jones as a hip-swiveling, primitive Moor. The staging is bold. In the bedroom scene, for example, Desdemona (Julienne Marie) does not just wait to be strangled. She makes a desperate dash to get away. Othello chases her, catches her when she trips on a flight of stairs, carries her, struggling, back to the bed, where he falls on her and chokes off her life...