Word: acidizing
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Gentle Suasion. Where Ross peppered his writers with long or acid queries, Shawn gets what he wants by gentle suasion. When he likes an article he often calls the author-even late at night-to tell him so. But as editors, the only deep difference between Ross and Shawn, says one writer, "is that Shawn is about 100 decibels quieter." Shawn has the same passion as Ross for facts and accuracy, and is so precise that even a craftsman like S. N. Behrman says: "I like to do a New Yorker piece once a year just to get the benefit...
...more than holds its own. Texas and Oklahoma alone have an estimated 71 million acres of it. Last week Dow Chemical Co. announced that, after three years of intensive testing, it had a chemical that could win the mesquite war. The killer: 2,4,5-T (short for trichlorophenoxyacetic acid...
Life with the Roses is one crisis after another, e.g., Jane's acid test as a baby sitter when all the formula bottles break, Jimmy-John's grim efforts to ride a bicycle or hike ten miles for a Boy Scout merit badge. Along the line, thanks to the long-suffering Roses, the problem pair finds understanding, love and finally the security that turns them into normal youngsters...
...Sidney Farber and a team of assistants have been getting encouraging results with new drugs. One of the first to show promise was nitrogen mustard (a deadly poison developed in World War II for chemical warfare). Newer and better, Dr. Farber believes, are the awkwardly named "folk acid antagonists." These, like ACTH and cortisone, are most often effective against the leukemias...
...Farm. "Jimmy," for whom the clinic and research building was named, is a New England farm boy. When he first saw Dr. Farber, the diagnosis was dismal: lymph-node cancer. Previous results with nitrogen mustard had been spotty, so Jimmy got three (out of the seven) folic acid antagonists. Today he is back doing chores on the family farm and feeling fine. His cancer shows no sign of activity...