Word: contacted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fine classical musicians (Mitchell played with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Ruff has a B.A. and M.A. from Yale) who formed a jazz duo and split their time between lectures and nightclub dates. In Russia, traveling with 30 members of the Yale Russian Chorus on an informal tour, the pair made contact with the young musicians of the Moscow Conservatory, gave an impromptu concert, and were introduced around to Russia's undercover cats...
...lost civilization with its own unnamed gods and elaborate ritual. Some paintings show boomerangs, the aborigine's weapon, but boomerangs were used in several parts of the prehistoric world. Lommel has not the slightest notion what the pictures signify, but believes they prove Australia must have been in contact during prehistoric times with other continents. Possibly the rock pictures were made by some ancient migratory tribe from Indonesia, which either perished, moved on, or was absorbed...
...SPACE will be tracked by worldwide communications network to be managed by Western Electric Co. under $25 million U.S. contract. Part of Project Mercury, network is due to be finished in 1960, will monitor satellite's equipment, maintain contact with astronaut...
...Emigrating to the U.S., he tried orange growing in Florida, wound up in 1927 as assistant professor in Georgetown's then tiny history department (now one of the nation's largest) and chairman in 1947. Though Kerekes is first a teacher ("Because I can that way make contact with youth"), he has stayed close to the Washington pulse, advised congressional committees on Hungary. In 1956 he founded Georgetown's Ethnic Institute, will continue as director in retirement, trying to preserve, on paper at least, the rich native cultures of all peoples in the world...
...physical maneuvers as the Shafer prone-pressure system and the Nielsen back-pressure, arm-lift method. Neither of these gets as much air into a victim's lungs as simply breathing into them after clearing the mouth, throat and windpipe of obstructions. For rescuers who cannot stomach direct contact with a person who may be dead, a plastic tube is already on the market. Or, says the Red Cross, they can breathe through a porous cloth...