Word: dis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ARMED FORCES Paln for cities Since last summer, when 70 cities were blitzed by bloody rioting, the nation's police forces have built up an arsenal of riot arms ranging from armored cars to the Mace chemical spray gun. In further preparation for civil dis order, Army Secretary Stanley R. Resor reported last week in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Pentagon has drawn up a battle plan for the cities as meticulous as any contingency planning for Southeast Asia...
PAINTING Triump of the Clumsiest In the act of painting, Chaim Soutine was something to behold. For months, he would ponder the idea for a painting, then in a wild outburst fling the paint onto the canvas with such vehemence that on one occasion he dis located his thumb. A model who posed for him never forgot the experience...
Unhappily, it turns out to be a partial failure, according to evidence presented at a recent Manhattan virology conference. In fact, RSV has once again confronted virologists with the paradox that a vaccine sometimes worsens the dis ease it theoretically prevents...
Robert M. Chanock of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Dis eases proposed an unorthodox explanation. The inherited antibody, he suggested, actually makes babies more vulnerable to the potentially fatal dis ease. First, Dr. Chanock distinguished between several kinds of antibody ("im-munoglobulins"), which immunologists label alphabetically. Only type G passes the placenta and gets into the fetal blood; the others are developed later...
...bunker roofs, followed by North Vietnamese infantrymen. "We heard them," says a Green Beret, "but we never thought they were tanks. We thought they were our generator acting up." Soon the Communists started shoveling satchel charges, grenades, napalm and tear gas down the air vents in an effort to dis lodge the defenders...