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Dates: during 1950-1959
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To study this mechanism, Beltsville scientists under Dr. Sterling B. Hendricks, 60, first played all the colors of the spectrum on a variety of plants. Most colors had no effect. But when red light was played on the plants, the effect was dramatic. They reacted even to a brief, 30...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Toward Control of Growth | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

To check their findings, Beltsville's men dosed plants with red light at all hours of the night. Fooling plants into believing the nights were longer or shorter than they really were seasonally, the scientists were able to make plants bloom months early or late. They have so efficiently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Toward Control of Growth | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Hockey Scores & Tuna Fish. St. Petersburg's retired oldtimers know exactly what they want in a newspaper, and it is up to the Times to give it to them. Each day, the paper devotes several columns to bridge, checkers, baseball, club meetings, roque and shuffleboard. The casualty list from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Old Subscribers | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

The Times's readers are exacting. From sobering experience, the Times's Executive Editor Thomas C. Harris, 51, has learned that the green benches lining Central Avenue are crowded with retired authorities from every imaginable-field, all vigilant to catch the Times in error. Running a filler item...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Old Subscribers | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

From the U.S. Navy, of all places, came a report last week of an accurate way to tell, as early as the eleventh week of pregnancy, whether a woman will have one baby, twins or triplets. In the A.M.A. Journal, three Navy doctors said they used the electroencephalograph (brainwave machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: One, Two or Three? | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

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