Word: walke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trotting track on Soldiers Field Road, does about three miles of running and then jogs back to the Field House. Some days the group goes out to Waltham, where as Peter Berle says, "we run up and down hills around the insane asylum. When we do the 'ski walk,' the inmates wonder why they have been committed." The men also skate and climb mountains on Sundays...
...patients are grown women. First sign of kuru is a slight trembling of the arms and legs on exertion. At this stage it subsides with rest. But a month to three months later the victim's head shakes, he begins to sway and stumble, and needs a walking stick for support. Within two months more, he is unable to stand or walk, has to be half-carried to tribal pig feasts. In this stage occur the outbursts which have caused kuru to be dubbed the laughing death. Speech gradually becomes more and more slurred until it is unintelligible. Nearly...
...hymning San Francisco's charms in suitably breezy prose, Sacramento-born Herb Caen (rhymes with reign) has long enjoyed the title "Mr. San Francisco," and one of the most faithful followings of any local columnist in the U.S. (TIME, July 1). On his three-block walk in 1950, Caen took with him 10,000 to 15,000 readers. The upward-struggling Chronicle (circ. 190,045), which has run six columnists in Caen's space without filling the gap, hopes that Herb's homecoming will draw an extra 30,000 circulation and regain some of the advertising that...
...however, the community is a closed one. Members are carefully chosen on the basis of their work and are given funds with which they can spend a year at the Institute. With the new community of modernistic, utilitarian houses which have been recently completed and lie within a short walk of the Institute and its few seminars and office buildings, almost all members may live on the school's location...
...nation Colombo Plan, the British-fostered scheme designed to help the backward nations of Southeast Asia. New paint gleamed everywhere. Old buildings and the sidewalks before them were scrubbed as clean as any in Amsterdam. Mayor Nguyen Phu Hai had sternly forbidden his citizens to spit in public or walk even partially naked in the streets. Energetic President Ngo Dinh Diem's capital had come a long way from the fear and misery of the days when every sidewalk café was guarded by heavy wire mesh from the grenades of passing terrorists...