Word: 1940s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clear that natural selection plays an overwhelming role in evolution, though with bacteria its role was long unrecognized: the population shifts seemed too rapid for an undirected process, and the existence of genes and mutations in bacteria was not recognized until the 1940s. But by now selection has become the foundation of bacterial ecology...
...known laboratory infections (about 6000 recorded in the history of microbiology) have been largely respiratory infections, spread by droplets (mostly before safety cabinets were introduced in the 1940s). Enteric infections, however, occur through swallowing of contaminated food or other material. Even the most virulent enteric pathogens are relatively safe to handle in the laboratory with simple precautions, such as not putting food or a cigarette on the laboratory bench...
...level needed to prevent outbreaks. In Boston, a 1975 study showed that levels were lowest in the poor, black areas of Roxbury and North Dorchester, where in two schools surveyed the immunization level had fallen to 15 per cent. In inner cities and rural slums throughout the country, a 1940s-style outbreak of polio is not inconceivable...
...says Paramount Executive Richard Sylbert. "Traditionally, women go to the movies to see Robert Redford and Paul Newman. But maybe times are changing." Producer Dan Melnick takes a somewhat more optimistic view: "If a few of these pictures do very well at the box office, we may rediscover the 1940s all over again...
...Erroll Garner, 53, jazz pianist and composer (Misty); of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Garner taught himself to play the piano when he was a child, but he never learned to read or write music. The musicians' union in his native Pittsburgh refused him membership in the 1940s because of this illiteracy, so Garner journeyed to New York City's famed 52nd Street to play in its jazz clubs. He eventually filled concert halls round the world and sold record albums by the millions...