Word: absents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been absent from the White House for 64 of the 96 days since Congress adjourned last August. *Ellis Slater, president of Frankfort Distillers Corp.; George Allen, Washington lawyer and friend of Presidents; Colonel Thomas Belshe (ret.), former Army pal; and their wives...
More mysterious than the red or white cells are the blood's tiny platelets (one twenty-five-thousandths in. in diameter, 200,000 to the cu. mm.) Nobody knows quite how they work, but they are essential to blood clotting. When they are absent, as in certain types of leukemia the patient may die from internal bleeding through microscopic holes in the walls of blood vessels. Platelets, it was long feared, were too fragile ever to be preserved. But Dr. Tullis and his colleagues have found that by handling blood in nonwettable plastic vessels, and removing other clotting proteins...
Last year's Associated Press All-Ivy eleven had two Crimson regulars on the first team, Captain Dick Clasby and center Jeff Coolidge. Meigs received a position on the second team, while fullback John Culver was noticeably absent from the squad...
Harvard Name Absent...
Hinton's long-absent children, Joan, 33, and William, 35, made congressional-committee headlines as proCommunists (TIME, Aug. 9), the school caught a whiff of bad publicity. But, respected and liked in her Vermont community, Rugged Individualist Hinton attracted the children of some of the nation's top professional and amateur educators (e.g., High Commissioner for Germany James B. Conant, former Ford Foundation President Paul G. Hoffman, Pundit Marquis Childs), and unendowed Putney prospered...