Word: corns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Geneticists study corn...
...pruning will be selective. Post subscribers who already receive LIFE will not be affected. Generally, the Post and LIFE will share high-quality circulation-subscribers who live in urban areas. Editorial content of the Post, now a mixture of meat and corn, will gradually become more uniformly sophisticated, Ackerman expects. "The problem we've had at the Post," he says, "is not knowing whether we're serving a mass or a class audience. The Post cannot make it in its present condition...
...Samuel Bogoch of Boston's Foundation for Research on the Nervous System taught pigeons to peck a particular button to get a kernel of corn from a machine. He found that the chemical brain reaction was not only the creation of new brain protein, but protein-sugar combinations (mucoids) as well. Until three years ago, said Dr. Bogoch, only 20% of the brain's proteins had been identified. This has now been raised to 60%, and those known are divided into 16 groups. Two of these groups show a marked, though brief, increase when a pigeon learns...
...kind of classic comedy chase that has been absent from films for too long. And they are ably backed by a surprisingly supple comedian named Van Johnson, who seems to be searching for-and finding -a new turn to his long career. Together, the old pros take the surplus corn and, like the manufacturers of all that breakfast food they buy, turn it into something with snap, crackle and popularity...
...convince students that it is, indeed, socially and morally conscious. "Thus it is that General Electric Company stresses its role in the fight against air pollution (it builds filtering systems), that Westinghouse Electric Company tells students and others about its work in running a Job Corps Center, and that Corn Products Company asks for '100 college graduates who realize that hunger is the most urgent problem in the world today,' an article explains. This is necessary, but hardly sufficient. Liberal-minded undergraduates are certainly concerned with the "social conscience" and the need to contribute to society, but when it comes...