Word: colorlessness
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...last the chemists isolated a small drop (20 mg.) of colorless, oily stuff, odorless to humans but with an enormous attraction for male gypsy moths. It could be diluted almost endlessly. Less than one ten-thousandth of a billionth of a gram (10 -7 microgram) of it was enough to bring eager males fluttering out of the woods. When the potent oil was analyzed, it proved to be a surprisingly simple chemical (10-acetoxy-1-hydroxy-cis-7-hexadecene) that can be synthesized for $5 per Ib. Dr. Jacobson has about 1 Ib. on hand. If it were diluted...
Preventive Diplomacy. That vote was a logical culmination of Hammarskjold's whole career as U.N. Secretary-General. When he took over in 1953 from Norway's forthright and flamboyant Trygve Lie, U.N. members contentedly thought they were switching from hot to cool. Dag seemed safely competent and colorless. He still speaks with caution, but on accepting his second term as Secretary-General, he gave full notice that he was prepared, without a specific mandate, "to fill any vacuum" and provide for the "safeguarding of peace and security." Last year he explained candidly that the limitations...
...Communists made Mao Tun, a nonCommunist, their Minister of Culture, and sent him shuttling around the world to peace and cultural congresses. At Peking's Second Congress of Writers and Artists in 1953, he prodded his fellow Red lettermen: "The heroes of our fiction are drab and colorless creatures of abstraction. Many of our artists still lack the courage to write about the contradictions in our social life. They turn our rich experience into one-sided affairs, molded to fit an arid formula...
Regimen's Andre is currently riding the crest of another new fad of his own creation : Man-Tan, a colorless lotion costing $3 for a four-ounce bottle that by means of a chemical reaction on skin changes the color to a yellow or a reddish brown, withstands repeated washing. Andre worked for years on a Man-Tan formula, writing herb gardens all over the world for ideas. He claims he finally found the answer in a 1920s medical journal describing experiments with dihydroxyacetone, a chemical that doctors once used in the treatment of diabetes. The article noted that...
...votes in all-but not on the jambalaya pot. Licked worse than even the strongest pessimist might have guessed was 47-year-old "Chep" Morrison himself, longtime reform politician, perennial foe of the Long regime, and, all in all, a relatively moderate Southerner. The winner: James H. Davis, 59, colorless, onetime Governor (1944-48) renowned for his guitar-strumming and hillbilly compositions (You Are My Sunshine), outspoken foe of integration, and without doubt the next Governor of Louisiana (since no Republican candidate stands a chance in the April general election). The vote...