Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Billie was home building a new chickee (hut) with a bathroom on Upjohn's money, and Upjohn was analyzing the tea's ingredients. It will be months before Upjohn feels able to announce its findings, at least two years before a new product could reach drugstores. Billie's tea, notes one researcher, contains "gunk" that needs thorough investigation. But Upjohn considers the" project highly worthwhile. Very useful drugs have been found before in unorthodox fashion, e.g., reserpine, the ancient tranquilizer made from India's Rauwolfia plant, which became an antihypertensive drug. A favorable outcome...
Main trouble: AET is not yet ready even for testing on humans, let alone for the bathroom medicine chest, because it causes too many undesirable side effects-including nausea and a drop in blood pressure. How soon trials in human volunteers can begin, no man knows. (First subjects would be cancer patients who might be able to take higher and more curative doses of radiation.) Other snags: AET must be taken at least 15 minutes before exposure to radiation, gives full protection for only about an hour. It may take years to find related chemicals that will be less toxic...
...Look at him, the white liberator of Africa," cracked an aide as Kwame Nkrumah (pronounced En-kroo-mah) poked his lathered dusky face out of a Blair House bathroom. Laughing lustily, the irrepressible Prime Minister of Ghana (pop. 4,800,000) finished his shave, draped on one of his $300 tribal robes of kente cloth, plunged into three days of red-carpet treatment in Washington. Fresh from a dignified state visit in Canada, he carefully controlled the spellbinding flamboyance that made him the "show boy" hero of the Dark Continent, but his warm humor hid just under the surface...
...dinnertime waltzes, vast reception rooms, six master bedrooms, baths where the water flows from gold faucets, and-a special convenience to guests with an urgent sense of privacy -a walled-in parking lot protected from the eyes of reporters who like to look up license numbers. In his own bathroom the gang chief likes to loll in a $10,000 tub carved. from a single piece of Mexican onyx...
...trials of a confused young man who sits in his Paris apartment waiting for his assignation with a married American woman. When she fails to appear by 2 a.m., he decides that she has flown back to her husband in New York, lets himself be seduced in a bathroom by a sulphurous blonde in a purple cashmere pullover who has wandered into his place with a crowd of hipsters. Then he suffers the pangs of remorse that any real Frenchman would presumably feel at being unfaithful to another man's wife. He takes poison-just before the American finally...