Word: conway
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...Bureau of Standards, the National Cancer Institute, and four universities. Even with such impeccable scientific credentials, the report is not likely to go uncontested. Krebiozen has strong emotional appeal and powerful political supporters (among them, Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas), and one of its most passionate promoters, Physiologist Andrew Conway Ivy, stubbornly insists that "creatine isn't Krebiozen. We're going ahead as in the past." But before long, the other secret of Krebiozen may be found: the National Cancer Institute is scrutinizing the records of 507 patients treated with Krebiozen, and its conclusions may finally...
...cancer drug named Krebiozen. A refugee physician from Yugoslavia, Dr. Stevan Durovic, said that he extracted it from the blood of specially inoculated horses in Argentina and brought it to the U.S. in 1949. Its first trials on human patients were made by Chicago's famous Physiologist Andrew Conway Ivy, who announced what he considered promising results in March...
...Gordon. He was already under sharp fire in the Commons for the way he had called in outside help to prepare his budget. Despite the usual strict rules on budget secrecy, he had help from three private businessmen-Martin O'Connell, a specialist in municipal finance, Geoffry R. Conway, a tax accountant, and David Stanley, an investment analyst. Opposition sharpshooters pounced on this indiscretion...
...Conway warned, there are also dangers implicit in the College's world. He described Harvard as a place that he wished "were less competitive and much less tense." He quoted Thomas Aquinas' teaching that the end of action is contemplation. He said that the University has not completely escaped "the impingement of commercial and industrial values on what should be a contemplative life essentially critical of secular values...
Another danger in Harvard's world--and one which Conway traced directly to the freedom he described--is that of "paralysis of the will, of a growing and hardening reluctance to commit oneself." "If the danger of a rigid orthodoxy is a completely closed mind," he asserted, "the danger of our particular kind of liberty is a compete open-mindedness." He said that "the kind of aristocrat Harvard produces has the duty to make his commitment." In the end, he said, "only that will justify our elitism. This wonderful Harvard world becomes a coterie to the extent that its graduates...