Word: weir
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deputy commander of Würzburg and of various support units in an area covering nearly one-third of southern West Germany, Hopfenspirger is one of a growing number of women to step into important command assignments. Colonel Frances Weir, 47, issues orders to a mostly male outfit at the support battalion in Fort Jackson, S.C. Colonel Georgia Hill, 49, is head of the sprawling supply depot at Cameron Station...
...harness, and steers by leaning right or left. He may also get aloft behind a motorboat or automobile -a more dangerous technique. Though James Bond used a Rogallo in his latest flick to swoop down on the bad guy, a far more spectacular flight was made recently when Jim Weir, 26, a gardener, and Burke Ewing, a 19-year-old student, both from San Diego, jumped from the top of 10,830-ft. Mount San Jacinto above Palm Springs. Recalls Weir: "I was in a screaming dive toward the mountain and there was nothing I could do about it. That...
...Your account of the "Four Walls Treatment," the Morita therapy used in Japan [Oct. 2], shows it very like the now forgotten "rest cure" developed by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell (1829-1914) of Philadelphia. Like Dr. Morita, Mitchell put his psychiatric patients to bed for a period of quiet under medical supervision and then required them to exercise. When one woman refused to get out of bed at the end of the prescribed period, Mitchell started to get into bed with her; when another refused to take the daily walk, he took her for a drive and dumped...
...unbounded enthusiasm before the first number. They were here to have a good time regardless of what came out of the performance. There were faint echoes of prepared laughter like the canned hysteria of television comedy. Significantly, the concert hadn't started yet because of a Dead equipment failure. Weir and Leash took the opportunity to make some condescending remarks to the kids, suggesting helpfully that they might amuse themselves by "scratching each others' butts" during the interlude in the entertainment. The show that ensued can only be described as a nominal discharge of the group's concert responsibilities. They...
...Weir and Lesh both turn in amazingly good performances, although the Dead have mixed Lesh too low again. Weir's vocals have also improved amazingly in the last two years...