Word: 9th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RHAZES, an Arabian physician, described the affliction in the 9th century A.D., mistaking it for a milder form of smallpox. Actually it was measles, a sometimes dangerous illness that has long been considered an unavoidable childhood disease. Now there is a good chance that the spots will be wiped out, thanks to the work of Harvard's Nobel-prizewinning Virologist John Franklin Enders, whose researches also made the Salk polio vaccine possible. For Enders' own progress report, see MEDICINE, Vaccine for Measles...
...program music, more on the level of a movie sound track than a concert piece. The first movement, "Palace Square," evoked an atmosphere of imminent tragedy, with its ominous drumbeat in the background. The second, "January 9th," is a musical treatment of the mob scene on "bloody Sunday." The third, "In Memoriam," is a funeral hymn to the fallen heroes, based on revolutionary songs of the period. The fourth, "Tocsin," rising to a crashing coda, was described in a Moscow daily as "a call for tireless struggle for the highest ideals of mankind.'' The work evidently satisfied Moscow...
Eric Hanson, execuive director of the CCA, said that the association clearly has four seats. He has not yet given up hope that James N. Gabriel, now 12th on the list, may win the 9th seat and give the CCA a majority on the Council. Hanson felt that the CCA's position had improved slightly over the last election...
Lieut. General Samuel E. Anderson, 51, director of the long-range Pentagon Weapons Systems Evaluation Group, succeeds Power as chief of Air Research and Development. Mild-mannered, high-strung West Pointer Anderson led the England-based wartime 9th Bomber Command, showed worried high brass how to use the stepchild B-26 Martin Marauder medium bomber as an effective tactical bomber. After top Pentagon staff jobs, he went back to command, led SAC's Eighth Air Force and later the Fifth Air Force in Korea...
...different eras to advance the science of paleography by a giant step; they provide a far earlier authority for the text of the Old Testament than had been available. The Old Testament is based on the so-called Masoretic text (from masora, tradition) developed in the 7th, 8th and 9th centuries A.D. by the schools of Babylonia and Palestine. Older than the Masoretic Bible is the Septuagint, a pre-Christian Greek translation which has been thought to be less authoritative than the Masoretic because of the difficulties of translating Hebrew terms into Greek. The Biblical manuscripts from Cave 4, yielding...