Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Havana, Correspondent Bruce Henderson got a vivid account of Dictator Fulgencio Batista's final banquet and ignominious flight, spent four days and sleepless nights putting together a comprehensive report on how and why he fell. For an analysis of what happened in Cuba, and what may happen now, see THE HEMISPHERE...
...held still, the name-dropping doctor could have continued in this style for half an hour. For the anatomy and pathology of the female reproductive system are bound up with the names of pioneers who explored their mysteries. Virtually all these pioneers were males, so in any technical account of a woman's intimate life there are many more men than she suspects. The most notable, numbering 101, are the heroes of Obstetric and Gynecologic Milestones (Macmillan; $15), by Obstetrician-Gynecologist Harold Speert of Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center...
...Middle West is littered with deposits of rocky glacial debris, in widely scattered areas and apparently dating from widely separated eras. Most glaciologists account for them by a theory that the huge Pleistocene glacier advanced and retreated four times, dropping its deposits each time as it melted back. Last week Professor Richard J. Lougee of Clark University, Worcester, Mass., offered a new theory. At the Washington meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he argued that the glacier did not retreat, but stayed in place so long that its enormous weight pushed a giant dimple...
Mild Pessimism. Final solution of the Railway Express problem may well depend on the outcome of the year-old proposed merger between the Central and the Pennsy, the nation's two largest railroads. (Together they account for nearly 15% of the railroad business; consolidation would bring them estimated savings of $200 million a year.) The Pennsy's operations and equipment studies are completed. Last week the financial vice president, David C. Bevan, said that financial studies for the merger are in their final stages and are expected to be presented to the Pennsy's board...
...long, hard, wary look at the scientist. This has impelled the publishers to reissue their Snow of yesteryear, and it can be read today not only as a good, plain narrative (Snow's later Strangers and Brothers series testifies to his skill), but as an insider's account of just how it feels to be an inmate of science's glass menagerie...