Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reading about the retirement of Airline Pioneer Patterson [May 6], I was amazed that you believe only two pioneers remain active. Without downgrading Trippe and Smith, how about Collett Everman Woolman, who at 76 is still sole boss of Delta Airlines, seventh-largest airline in the world? Woolman pioneered crop dusting in 1925 and inaugurated the first mail-passenger airline on the West Coast of South America in 1928 (this line became Panagra). President of Delta since its founding in 1929, Woolman takes second place to no one for continued, consistent airline management, and he is not about to retire...
...Castro Call. Exiles in New York, Miami and Nassau only shrug at such gestures. Never at a loss for rumors, exiles were brimming with an entirely new crop last week, hinting at possible coup attempts inside Haiti and new guerrilla invasions. To help pave the way, "The Voice of Haitian International Union," an exile group, buys time on a New York short-wave radio station to beam a half-hour news and conversation program into Haiti six days a week, poking fun at Duvalier. Castro is also taking to the air waves. "Duvalier has signed his own death warrant," Havana...
Though everyone has his horror story about medical negligence or slipups, there seems to be a tone of special aggrievement in the current crop. There was the woman in Illinois who complained that she did not feel well, was advised by telephone to take aspirin, and was dead within the hour. There was the Washington child with the crushed hand that no doctor would agree to see until a neighbor promised to pay for treatment. There was the rash that expensively baffled two experts-until the lady in question discovered bedbugs. Though such examples are exceptions, the profession itself admits...
...recalls were caused by irritating rubs and rattles. Such defects are inevitable. "We now manufacture passenger cars which average about 14,000 parts each," wrote G.M. President James M. Roche in his covering letter to G.M.'s list. "It is hardly surprising under these circumstances that imperfections sometimes crop...
...Spread. Drs. Meyer and Parkman spent two years growing 77 crops of rubella virus, each "seeded" from the preceding crop. At this point, they inoculated rhesus monkeys with what they called HPV-77 (for high-passage virus). Happily, the vaccinated monkeys showed no signs of rubella, but developed antibody against it, while their cagemates remained free of infection. The first human testing of the vaccine was equally sensitive: the subjects had to be children with no history of rubella, and no possible contact with pregnant women...