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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...competitions. At 19 she quit school, went to Sacramento and got an $80-a-week job at a small watering place called the Mo-Mo Club. After that came places such as Elko, Nev. and Eureka. Kans. As she slimmed down to her present 145 Ibs., Ann began to get dates in Las Vegas and Hollywood, but she did not hit it big. She refused to sing rock 'n' roll ("The money isn't that important''); her best records (Like Nothin', 01' Man River) got raves from the trade papers but they...
...that had made her famous. Sometimes, when she thought about it, she remembered those rhythmic shivers as a spontaneous creation - something that just came naturally one night when the band played ragtime. Sometimes the shimmy was born to the tune of The Star-Spangled Banner. But always it all began when Gilda was still Maryanna Michalska, a 14-year-old Polish immigrant, belting out sentimental ballads in John Letzka's saloon in Cudahy...
Giant morale sagged visibly. In the fourth quarter Colt linemen swarmed in on aging (38) Quarterback Charlie Conerly on nearly every play. Under pressure, Conerly, who had only four passes intercepted all season, began to throw in desperation. Two of his Lord-help-us heaves were picked off by Baltimore's nimble defensive backs, one for a 42-yd. touchdown return, the other to set up a scoring pass by the redoubtable Unitas. Final score: Baltimore 31, New York...
...Academy of Fine Arts after the war, he was a disciple of Rodin, but Kricke's independence of mind soon asserted itself to make him unpopular with his academic teachers. He moved to Duesseldorf because ''it has a certain dynamism, factories going up every day," and began the independent career that led him to decisively abstract sculpture. Kricke's steel constructions have since made him an international figure, with works in German, French, Belgian, English and American museums. Four of his pieces stole the show at an exhibition of European sculptors at Manhattan's Staempfli...
Most astronomers and theologians assume that the earth's life began on the earth. Maybe not, thinks Cornell's Astronomer Thomas Gold. In a paper read at a Los Angeles meeting of space scientists, Gold suggested that "life" may have existed elsewhere in the universe for uncounted billions of years before it took root on the earth. How did life reach the earth and begin its long climb toward human consciousness? His answer: perhaps it was brought by spaceships...