Word: brotherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some simple requests from the folks back home. On the wanted list: for Emperor Hirohito, an old pro at marine biology, scientific data on Hydrozoa and the latest French research on oysters; for Crown Prince Akihito, three kinds of tropical fish; for Prince Mikasa, the Emperor's youngest brother and a history prof at Tokyo Women's Christian College, a museum catalogue on archaeology...
...brush with baseball as a player. He caught a ball on his nose, and quit. At the University of Pennsylvania he shunned athletics to become the complete politician. "I believe he was the first man ever to become president of both his junior and senior class," says a fraternity brother (Theta Delta Chi). "It was typical of him that although he didn't dance, he ran the class dances-and made money out of them...
...long ago he specialized in booze and brawling. On his way home from the Army in 1946, Ken stopped in at his favorite bar at Sin Corner-Summers Street and Kanawha Boulevard-and there he learned that both his father and brother had just died. He promptly went on a bender that could be heard for blocks. Back at his job on the force, he was suspended three times for drinking, improper conduct, breach of duty. "I was nothing but a bum in a policeman's uniform," he says. "I showed no mercy, no tolerance. My arrest tactics were...
This week Charleston's cops and skid row bums were talking about the bad news: Chief Bias was looking for a new chaplain and missioner. Ken Hager is retiring from the force to move to New Smyrna Beach, Fla., where his brother, sister and 85-year-old mother live. But he does not plan to relax in the sun. "I believe God will lead me into new work there," he says. "I imagine some people down there need a little prodding about the future of their souls. I'll be there to give it to them...
...victims of acute radiostrontium poisoning are known), the chemical is a tasteless yellow dye, the rhodizonate salt of either sodium or potassium. Lindenbaum and his colleagues dosed their rats with the mildly radioactive strontium 85, which, for the purpose of the test, served as well as its deadlier big brother, strontium 90. Then the rats got the rhodizonate in moderate-to-huge doses every which way: intravenously, by injection into the peritoneal cavity, by stomach tube, and in their drinking water...