Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture is as tailored to Mermaid Williams' specifications as the one-piece bathing suits she wears in the picture (Annette Kellerman daringly introduced the one-piece suit 44 years ago). There are several spectacular Busby Berkeley water ballets, churning with sky-high fountains, Technicolored smoke effects and choruses of movie mermaids and mermen sliding down chutes and diving off swings. So long as it stays in the water, Million Dollar Mermaid is good fun. In its landlocked sequences, it is just another dry cinebiography...
Last week a crisp Australian who has done as much as any man living to subdue the influenza virus put the finishing touches on some experiments at the University of Wisconsin, then flew to California to check on virus research at Berkeley. Soon he will go back to his own laboratories in Melbourne. Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet came to the U.S. to receive a Lasker Award and to tell fellow virologists what he has found out Down Under...
...opposite sides of San Francisco Bay, two teams of University of California researchers hold different theories about the cause of hardening of the arteries. On the east side, in the Berkeley campus' Donner Laboratory, Dr. John Gofman leans to the theory that giant cholesterol molecules are to blame (TIME, June 5, 1950). Now, from the University's School of Medicine on the west side, comes strong evidence to the contrary. Cholesterol, according to Drs. Henry D. Moon and James F. Rinehart, does not cause hardening of the arteries, and is not even much of a factor until...
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