Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Several chemicals have been used for almost 20 years to starve cancer cells of necessary nutrients, but all, until now, have also had an adverse effect on healthy cells that need the same substances. L-asparaginase, says Dr. Lloyd J. Old of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute, is unique because it selectively deprives the cancer cells without harming the normal. But dependence upon asparagine does not extend to all types of cancer; it appears to be limited to some forms of leukemia and disease of the lymphatic system...
...enzyme was a boy in Chicago who was dying of leukemia. After infusions of partially purified enzyme from guniea-pig serum, his white-cell count decreased, and so did the swelling of some of his organs. But his red-blood cells were being destroyed as an apparent side effect and treatment had to be stopped. The boy died of his leukemia. The problem of purification remains. Even the presumably safer material extracted from bacteria, in its currently purest form, causes allergic reactions in mice-as it did to some extent in the case of young Frank Hayes...
...space line of interlocking aluminum balls and collars, all strung on a central cable. When the cable is loose, the tether is completely flexible, bending at each ball joint. But when tightened by a winch or a similar device, the cable pulls all parts together and in effect freezes the line in whatever position it is in. It then becomes the functional equivalent of a stick. If the astronaut's power pack has malfunctioned but he is otherwise alright, he can pull himself in, hand over hand, on the rigid tether. If he is unconscious, the loose tether...
...announcers, the industry's proposal of $220 a week was within $5 of the union's demand. AFTRA also was asking networks to maintain announcers solely for their FM stations, a demand that management described as "blatantly featherbedding." By NBC's reckoning, "The effect would be the hiring of three additional men to handle a total of two hours work each week." At any rate, the picketers were not exactly eligible for the welfare rolls. Even under the currently expired old contract, the announcers and newsmen in 1966 averaged well over $20,000 a year...
...Episcopal Church Divinity School of the Pacific: "Something like trial marriage would be vastly superior to our present system, which is marriage, divorce and remarriage." In addition Dr. Robert Lee of San Francisco Theological Seminary argues that since "intercourse during engagement is becoming standard," the time of betrothal, in effect, "has become a trial marriage...