Word: clue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from victims to Melbourne's famed Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, hoping that the laboratories would find a virus cause for the disease. They found none. Next a pathologist, anthropologist, dietitian, psychiatrist and psychologist hit the mountain trails. They eliminated emotional factors as causes of kuru, found no clue to a physical cause...
...meal at one end while discussing the kuru-damaged brains lying at the other. They shipped specimens to Melbourne and to the U.S. National Institutes of Health at Bethesda, Md. From 154 patients and their kin, they got a detailed picture of kuru's course, though no clue to its cause...
...Dickens and Poe, played by Bil Baird puppets, Dr. Research (Dr. Frank Baxter) and Actor Richard Carlson submitted their scientific candidate for a detective-story prize. Between fancy patter with the panel, the pair used film, animated cartoons and laboratory models to show how the sleuths of science discovered, clue by clue, what little is known about the cosmic rays that bombard the earth. The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays was an instructive hour, much less vulgar in its popularization than Hemo the Magnificent, but it could have done with less sugar-coating ("These science dicks will knock...
...clue, which most critics seized on, is that Soviet art still stands where Western European art was at the turn of the century. Hints have reached the outside that younger Moscow artists are painting clandestinely in the manner of Cezanne; some are even reported to be secretly painting abstractions. If so, no samples were shown at the current exhibition. Instead, there were conscientious sketches of oil derricks, streaking red jets, power lines, blast furnaces, and a young Soviet woman standing fast with a lantern by a railroad switch...
Another aspect of the government's lack of cooperation with IGY research provides a fundamental clue to the lag in our missile, as well as our satellite program. The lack of unified work on rocketry was symptomatic of the continued, childish inter-service rivalries. At present, the Defense Department is pushing two intercontinental ballistic missiles, the Navy's and the Air Force's, and two intermediate range missiles, the Army's and the Navy's. Without any exchange of technical information between the feuding branches of the military and without combined financial aid or research efforts, it is little wonder...