Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trying to say: let's try to be reasonable," replied Dwight Eisenhower when a reporter asked about antirecession spending. "Let's try to use some common sense and not just get a Sputnik attitude about everything." All last week the President kept a tight grip on the rule of reasonableness, surprised staff and Congress alike by using it to administer a sharp rap across the knuckles here, a threat there, to keep politically fired recession fears from getting out of bounds...
...vanished players had one thing in common: they were all Algerians. It was as if, overnight, the best Latin American baseball players in the major leagues-men like Chico Carrasquel, Bobby Avila, Minnie Minoso, Ruben Gomez-had fled the U.S. and challenged the Yankees and Braves for the world championship...
...relaxed and cordial atmosphere created by these concessions, Prime Minister Macmillan and his aides made a pitch for German help against France. Britain has refused to join the six-nation, tariff-free European Common Market, but does not want to be shut out of a probable market of 165 million people. Britain would like to be an affiliate (along with ten other European nations) in a looser free-trade area, but as a price for letting the British in, France demands tariff preference throughout the British Commonwealth. Adenauer agreed to help...
Dynamite & Gas. Now that rabies is common among vampires, their bloodletting often brings agonizing death. In Trinidad 89 humans have died of bat rabies since 1935. Other countries also list human victims, but the principal damage is done to cattle. In the single Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, vampires killed 50,000 cattle...
...Theory. Then, with the mechanical kidney in frequent operation, began a three-week preparation at Brigham for one of the most radical operations ever attempted: transplanting a kidney between persons who lack common genes. In recent years, a Brigham team had succeeded six times (and failed once) in kidney transplants-but only between identical twins. Of 17 attempted transplants between unrelated persons, none worked; antibodies in the recipients' blood destroyed the "foreign" tissue. The operations worked for the twins because of the rare match between the patients' genes: instead of being destroyed by antibodies, the transplanted kidneys "took...