Word: clockwork
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...known and unknown perils of space stayed their hand last week as the U.S. shot a second man into space with almost clockwork success. What made the second flight less successful than the first -and nearly cost Astronaut Virgil ("Gus") Grissom his life-was the same primitive danger that threatened the skin-covered boats of neolithic man: the hostile and brooding...
...good deal of Jean Kerr in Mary, Mary, a play that one critic described as "five characters releasing an author." The characters inhabit an unashamedly prefabricated plot (about a divorced couple who, of course, get together again), but it is full of humor and insight. All situation comedy is clockwork; what matters is who makes the clock. Like Jean Kerr, the heroine is a compulsive wisecracker: years ago, when her husband made his first tentative pass, she told him, "Let's not start something we can't finish in a taxi on 44th Street." Like Jean Kerr, another character...
Incredible depth and near-perfect covering on the Eagle's two or three excellent players were the keys to the Crimson win. Harvard scored first as an overflow crowd saw Dave Johnson blast the puck in from left defense, and before the B.C. first line's clockwork produced any effect, the third period was a quarter over and the Crimson four goals ahead...
...little more than a month ago. Within a few days he had a succession of heart seizures, and his condition got so bad that drugs helped only briefly. Last week Retired Businessman Fairman was at his son's home for New Year's, his heartbeat regular as clockwork. The remedy: Fairman's heart muscle had been wired directly to a tiny electric pacemaker, which he wore clipped to his belt...