Word: co
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York's Powell-weary Democratic organization, the breaking point came when Powell supported Dwight Eisenhower for President in 1956. Searching around for a Democratic candidate against the big man from Harlem, Tammany came upon Councilman Brown, whose civil rights performance surpasses his oratory, e.g., he is co-author of New York City's antidiscrimination housing...
These figures are averages. They do not reveal what the extremes of exposure may be for individuals in many parts of the world. But by any gauge, most scientists agree that man is already exposed to too much radiation. Last week, at the first International Co'ngress of Radiation Research in Burlington, Vt., Brookhaven National Laboratory's Dr. Howard J. Curtis reported evidence that a single modern fluoroscopic examination of a pregnant woman's pelvis will shorten her child's life by two weeks...
...false goal, and as bad as'a false god. Said Zurich's Dr. Adolf Guggen-biihl: "Man is basically nonrational; he has too many basic, instinctual drives ever to become wholly rational or logical, and medicine must help him to accept this fact." To Jung & Co., the latter-day worship of rationality has its roots in the scientism that gave birth to both the world of technology and the cultural need to venerate rationalism...
Sneak Killer. Among other things that Balke & Co. studied was sensitivity to an excess of carbon dioxide in the inhaled air. Odorless and tasteless, COo can be a sneak killer: if something went wrong with his oxygen-recycling system or its indicator, a busy spaceman might not notice it until too late. In the altitude chamber, first Balke and then the airmen mounted an Exercycle. Disguised like Martians in a spirometer (breathing measurement) mask, they pedaled frantically off to nowhere...
Last week, in a calm, sober study, Roy L. Reierson, vice president and chief economist of Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co., concluded that the bearish worries had far outrun the possibilities. "There is some feeling that the American economy may, within the next few years, be engulfed by a speculative, inflationary burst involving a flight out of dollars and money assets and into tangible property, gold or equities. The odds do not seem to favor such a prospect at this time...