Word: beta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beta Kappa Finalist
...education, development of natural resources, asked for a minimum wage law, a new department of industry and commerce, and proposed a bond issue to maintain the pace of highway construction. What further fired Maine's independent-minded voters was Muskie's straightforward eggheadedness (Bates '36, Phi Beta Kappa), his ability to discuss convincingly ethical and moral questions. In his campaign he had only to bear down hard on his record, spread his gospel-tagged with a surefire slogan: "One good term deserves another...
...better family," but recommended Brown because it was smaller and because of its fine staff. So the lonely son of the richest man in the world packed his bags and went to Providence. There he worked hard at sociology and economics, got high marks and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa; much of his spare time he spent teaching the boys' Bible class of a nearby Baptist church, or working in the college Y.M.C.A. To his surprise, John soon found that his quiet and modest ways were winning him a sincere and ready liking. He was elected president...
Under the headline "Cancer Suspects" appearing in your Aug. 27 issue, you list "Beta-naphthylamine, used as a dye fixative in many lipsticks and chewing gums." As far as we know, and we have checked with all of the important technical experts in the lipstick field, beta-naphthylamine is not used in lipstick at all. Nor is it an intermediate of the various dyes which are used in the manufacture of lipsticks, and accordingly cannot even appear therein as a contaminant...
...TIME erred. Beta-naphthylamine, although not found in any currently marketed U.S. lipsticks or chewing gums, was formerly used in some British lipsticks...