Word: celling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Survivors know it was slow because the P.A. system blared the victims' screams throughout the cell blocks. A variant was the Pulpo (Octopus), a many-armed electrical device attached by means of small screws inserted into the skull. Trujillo's men also employed a rubber "collar" that could be tightened enough to sever a man's head, an 18-in. electrified rod ("the Cane") for shocking the genitals, nail extractors, leather-thonged whips, small rubber hammers, scissors for castration...
...Watson-Crick model, basis for of modern molecular biology, how DNA carries genetic information changes its informational content and replicates itself in cell...
...they called for still stronger warnings, which Parke, Davis put out a year ago. The chief recommendation is that doctors using Chloromycetin for long-term or repeated treatment should keep close check on their patients' blood-cell counts...
...advantages. Last week the Upjohn Co. withdrew Monase. a "psychic energizer,"after reporting to FDA that widespread use since June 1961 had produced seven cases of aplastic anemia, four of them fatal-though the drug was tested in 3,500 patients, with no sign of damage to their blood-cell mechanisms, before it was marketed...
...impossibility of achieving 100% freedom from side effects is shown in the council's listing of 48 other drugs that have, in at least a few patients, caused blood-cell damage. They include many of the most widely used sulfas and invaluable drugs universally prescribed for diabetes, arthritis, heart failure, epileptic seizures, tuberculosis, thyroid disease and emotional disorders. Even such old reliables as quinine and the painkillers phenacetin and aminopyrine are on the list...