Word: anoka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blasts from Space. During the night of May 11-12, five balloons rose into the sky from the university's airport at Anoka, 20 miles north of Minneapolis. At 60,000 ft. their instruments began to register intense blasts of radiation. Study of the instrument packages at the University of Minnesota showed that the radiation was made of speeding protons from the sun. The radiation was about 1,000 times as intense as the cosmic rays that normally come from space. Unlike the Van Allen radiation, which is made of solar protons that have been trapped by the earth...
English Teacher Ruth Ulferts of the senior high school in Anoka, Minn. (pop. 7,396) regarded the assignment as strictly routine. Write a theme on a book, she told her class; any book will do. Gangling Sophomore Richard Ingledue, 15, son of a truck driver, picked up his pencil, frowned a bit and began...
...oxygenation by "filming" the blood, i.e., letting it run thin over a flat surface. They wanted to avoid bubbling it because of the danger that some bubbles might be left in, and if these reached the brain, they could cause paralysis or death. Richard DeWall, a general practitioner from Anoka, Minn., went to work with Lillehei. Neophyte DeWall figured: Instead of dreading bubbles, why not put them to use? After all, the blood could be made to "film" around bubbles. He took the revolutionary step of pumping the patient's blood into a plastic cylinder and deliberately bubbling, almost...
...handful of Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party outcasts, handed him impossible schedules, spent most of their time squabbling among themselves about how their candidate should spend his time. One day the Keef wasted nearly two hours being driven around northwest Minneapolis while his guides looked for the offices of the Anoka Herald, a suburban newspaper. The motorcade headed in one direction, got lost, stopped at a filling station to inquire about the route, doubled back, stopped to ask again, charged off in still another direction. Finally arriving at his destination, Kefauver spent five minutes shaking hands with the editor and half...
Tatsuo Arima of Tokyo, Japan; Philip J. Andrews of Milton, Mass.; James E. Dale Jr. of Anoka, Minn.; Robert Gilmor Jr. of Woodborn, N. Y.; David C. Jordan of Charlottesville, Va.; Michael L. Murray of Westfield, N. J.; Thomas H. Rockel (Capt.) of Storrs, Conn.; Robert Wynne of Bethlehem, Pa.; Robert J. McLaughlin (Mgr.) of West Roxbury, Mass...