Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempt to discredit the Governor of Colorado by claiming his state University harbored "Communistic, subversive professors" failed last March, but only after a month-long storm in that state's education and politics. Center of the controvery was the University of Colorado's top-secret report on "subversive" professors, which Governor Dan Thornton had ordered compiled but refused to make public...
Political enemies of Thornton, headed by State Senator Morton G. Wyatt, used information secretly obtained from the report to attack Thornton and his appointee, Colorado University President, Robert L. Stearns. After Stearns had declared there were no "subversives" on the University faculty, Wyatt named three on the libel-free halls of the State Senate, and demanded they be fired. The speech, branded by the Lieutenant-Governor as "nau-seating" led Thornton supporters to rush to the aid of the University, while supporters of civil liberties demanded that the two-year old report, compiled by former FBI agents, be either released...
Wyatt's behavior stirred new protests that the secrecy of the report made it possible for all sorts of gossip to be spread. A Colorado faculty committee, including three Deans, urged the Board of Regents to destroy it. The Denver Post recommended five of the copies be burned, and the sixth sent to the FBI for use in its own files "under statuary safeguards against improper...
Hawkins, on leave for one year from the University of Colorado on a Carnegie fellowship, is a section man in Natural Science 4 and has recently been lecturing in that course...
...Colorado last week, Dr. Gardner Middlebrook of Denver's National Jewish Hospital confirmed the doctors' suspicions, but calmed their fears. Isoniazid-resistant bacilli did indeed develop, said Dr. Middlebrook, but in tests with lab animals, the new bacilli proved to have lost the old virulence. And they seemed to have lost the ability to grow and reproduce in healthy tissue. Dr. Middlebrook is pretty sure that isoniazid "will not solve all the problems of tuberculosis." But he is ready to call it "the most remarkable chemotherapeutic agent yet discovered for an infectious disease...