Word: appendix
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Selman Waksman, 75, Nobel-prizewinning antibiotics pioneer, in Montevideo's American Hospital after removal of a perforated appendix (despite fears of allergy caused by prolonged contact, doctors successfully used streptomycin, which he helped discover); General Lemuel Shepherd, 67, retired U.S. Marine Corps commandant, in Bethesda Naval Hospital, Md., with a broken arm and possible concussion after being thrown by his horse; Presidential Scientific Adviser Jerome Wiesner, 48, in Otis Air Force Base Hospital with pneumonia after his 10-ft. sailboat capsized off Martha's Vineyard. A poor swimmer, Wiesner clung to the boat while his son Joshua...
...described and evaluated in the 100 page appendix to the recommendations of the Conway subcommittee, the freshman seminar program and the program of General Education presently work at cross-purposes. Some quotations from the report, written by Byron Stookey and endorsed by the subcommittee, will suggest that one of the aims of the seminar program is to induce students to follow their teachers into an academic career. The seminars "have utilized inquiry in depth (a) as a means of demonstrating the nature and methods of a significant academic area; (b) to provide opportunity for the student to discover what scholarly...
...Churchill walked away from a plane crash at London's Croydon airport. At 48, he surrendered his appendix to a surgeon's knife and, nine years later in the U.S., lost a decision to a Manhattan taxicab, which knocked him down and broke some Churchillian bones. Since his 70th birthday, the ailments have come thick and fast: a hernia operation in 1947, a stroke in 1953 and, two years ago, a broken bone in his back from a fall in his London home. On that occasion, Churchill celebrated his 86th birthday with cigars and-in place of brandy...
...Snow has replied to the numerous criticisms provoked by the Godkin lectures he delivered at Harvard last year in a recently published appendix to his essay Science and Government...
Like the human appendix, the vestigial Blue Laws, often painful in their enforcement, ought to be removed. In an earlier time, the approval of a majority of the populace may have provided these statutes with a just raison d'etre. Now, the lack of consent among that same majority has transformed them into nothing but a source of irritation and laughter. Only two groups remain to defend what have become really illegitimate impositions on the rest of the state. The first, the minority which believes militantly in the faiths which formerly predominated in Massachusetts society, still refuses to recognize that...