Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Westerners are as familiar with China and its leaders as Author Edgar Snow (Red Star Over China). As a journalist, he has traveled in China since the 1930s and has had unequaled access to the thinking and policy shifts within the Chinese government, and his personal knowledge of Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai dates from the rise of the Communist movement on the mainland. The first public indication of Mao's willingness to meet with President Nixon was contained in Snow's report in LIFE Magazine on his most recent visit to Peking last winter...
...Proof. Now a group of British researchers have come up with a partial answer. In a series of papers published recently in the scientific journal Nature, they report that aspirin and its close pharmaceutical relatives tend to halt the production of prostaglandins, hormone-like substances first discovered in the 1930s. Although their exact role is still incompletely understood, prostaglandins occur in semen, menstrual fluid and a wide variety of human tissues. They are known to be involved with the functions of such diverse structures as the heart, bronchial tubes, blood vessels and stomach...
...Colombo lay in a coma, Mafia and law-enforcement officials awaited developments in what was certainly the opening round of a new Mob conflict. In the past, the emergence of a boss of bosses like Gambino has usually resulted in a war. The modern Mafia was reorganized in the 1930s, and the Commission was established after bloody battles to curb the power of a single leader. Gambino's assertion of leadership?quite apart from the Colombo family's need for revenge?makes it possible that a full-scale battle may erupt. Beyond doubt, the attempt to murder Joe Colombo...
Huang's contact with Americans dates from the mid-1930s, when he studied at U.S.-supported Yenching University in Peking. In 1944, he served as a Communist liaison officer to the U.S. military mission in Yenan. There he charmed Americans with his affability-as well as his ability to win at Monopoly...
...1930s, the theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and one of his graduate students at the University of California, Hartland Snyder, proposed what seemed like a wildly improbable idea. When the nuclear fires of extremely massive stars die out, they suggested, the stars collapse so completely under the pull of their own gravity that they literally crush themselves out of existence, leaving only a "black hole" in space as evidence of their passing. Now, just as scientists are beginning to study the first tentative signs that there really may be such black holes (TIME, April 5), they are also being asked...