Word: clams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alekseevich Menshikov, Russia's new ambassador to the U.S. A foreign-trade specialist who persuasively sold the Soviet trade-plus-aid approach as ambassador to India, Envoy Menshikov, 55, is conspicuously suited to the Kremlin's peaceful-coexistence line. In black-and-white contrast to his dour, clam-mouthed predecessor, Georgy Zarubin, he flashes a wide and easy smile, spouts friendly sentiments in fluent English. Upon arrival in the U.S. a fortnight ago, he promptly declared himself an ambassador of "peace, friendship and cooperation." Last week he paid courtesy visits to Vice President Nixon and half a dozen...
...develops "the astounding power of some 20,000 grams per gram of its own weight," or ten times the power of human muscles working at top speed. Says Hoyle: "The only known muscles in the whole animal world that equal this power are the shell-closing muscles of the clam-but the grasshopper's muscles work far more rapidly...
...months ago. Then he shocked the nation's nannies and provoked a reproving tut from one British newspaper by shipping eight-year-old Prince Charles as crew for a three-hour race through choppy seas in his 2g-ft. yawl, Bluebottle. Result: happy and salt-soaked as a clam, Charles had a fine time, pleased his papa by taking the tiller himself after they plowed past the finish line in fourth place...
These are not very dangerous amounts; the maximum permissible concentration of cobalt 60 in the human body is listed by the Bureau of Standards as three microcuries. A man would have to eat at least ten of the hot clams (20 Ibs. of flesh) to exceed this limit. But Weiss and Shipman cannot be sure that cobalt 60 was not heavily concentrated in some special part of the clam's tissue, increasing the danger proportionately...
Unsuspected Mechanism. Weiss and Shipman were not aware when they began their work that clams have a love for cobalt. To find out whether other species than the giant clam like to collect it, they added a little cobalt to San Francisco Bay water (which normally has no detectable trace) and put some local clams into it. Later analysis by the Navy team showed that these clams also have the trait of collecting cobalt...