Word: except
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...daughter of a furniture maker. Meneghini hopes to launch his new protegee in the style to which Maria grew accustomed, probably in Venice's La Fenice opera house. How will it all end? Said one of Silvana's friends: "She's kind of like Callas-except she doesn't want to go on The Diet." Silvana has no need to reduce: happily, she is about the same size before as Maria was after...
...developed by Dr. Herald R. Cox. These have been put into a one-swallow, trivalent vaccine that 413,316 residents of Florida's Dade County (Miami and environs) took early this year. So far, there has been no case of paralytic polio in the county among the vaccinated, except seven which, say doctors, were already incubating when the victims took the vaccine...
...cancer; in Portland. Of all his multiple interests, the indefatigable MacNaughton most relished his unpaid post at endowment-dwindling Reed. Ending about every extravagance except the famed twelve-man classes ("We don't want to water down our professors with students"), the blustery Scot, a self-styled "Republican with a move on," badgered his conservative friends into unprecedented contributions to what they had long considered "those Reed pinkos," put the college in the black for the first time in years...
...growing oil-and-beef city of Artesia, N. Mex., where the temperature sometimes hits 100° in October, citizens have long become used to windowless schools. It helps air conditioning, and the children approve. But last week Artesia* announced an even more singular design. Except for the flagpole, Abo Elementary school will be entirely underground-apparently the first such nuclear-age school in the U.S. Says Architect Frank Standhardt: "I consider my profession derelict on civil defense. We've had ten years of grace and done nothing about...
...reason other than the charter flight. The CAB is usually tough about approving charter applications from club organizers and travel agents, sometimes cancels flights at the last minute if it suspects deceptions. Although wives and children of club members may join the flight, clubs cannot advertise the charter flight except in their own publications, cannot make a profit from...