Word: experimental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Watching the flow of aid, trade and ideas, a State Department observer last week summed up the U.S. attitude towards its Polish experiment: "It is a calculated risk. But what we could gain is great, what we could lose is relatively insignificant."
The Experiment. In Cameron's experiment, each of 26 patients aged 17 to 54 (five men, 21 women) was dosed with chlorpromazine, which increased the sedative effect of barbiturates. By the end of the first week they were sleeping 20 to 22 hours a day. After getting solid food...
Results of Cameron's experiment: of ten patients previously ill less than two years, all have been discharged, and none has had to be readmitted, though a few have had additional shock treatments as outpatients. Of 16 ill longer than two years, all but three have gone home (though...
Before the time of Otto von Bismarck, Germany was not much more than a geographical expression-a sprawling, warring collection of states, duchies and feudal enclaves where the Hessians. Thuringians and Bavarians fought among themselves but mostly against the Prussians. Under Bismarck the Prussians won, and the Iron Chancellor set...
Last week, almost a quarter of a century since the German Reichstag and the Weimar Republic went up in flames together, Germany's second experiment in democracy was in the full flower of a free election. Though incumbent Chancellor Konrad Adenauer still seemed a shoo-in in a generally...