Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Traveling Man. As a campaigner, Agnew was proving a quick study. Working with the Nixon staff in California, he was given a fast lesson in how to deal with the press, learning how to gloss over embarrassing questions and how to cut his answers from a windy five minutes to a streamlined minute and a half. In his first public appearance since nomination, he was a big hit, wowing a Portuguese-American association in San Francisco with language that will likely be repeated across the nation. It was an odd mixture of sensible patriotism and a smug defense...
Model of Sobriety. Sundered, stricken Nigeria is a far different place from the fast-developing territory that in 1960 won final independence from Britain and thus became Africa's most populous country. No other on the continent had a more promising future or a more exciting present. Occupying the wide basin of the mighty Niger River, Nigeria's 56 million people had built a sturdy economy and installed an active parliamentary government. Because British colonial law had largely prevented white men from owning land, the enterprise of black traders and businessmen flourished, based on exports of palm oil and cocoa...
...fast becoming a more representative figure in Kenya than Mr. Shida. In its eagerness to develop a native cadre of businessmen, however, Kenya must use restraint. Pressed by the government to aid in the effort, many non-African businessmen note that effective training takes time. And a group of University of Nairobi economists, African and white alike, has warned that Africanization, essential as it is, could impair Kenya's continued economic growth if pushed too fast...
...Fast Freeze. Since all normal blood contains AHF when fresh, transfusion is an obvious answer. But the volume needed may amount to several pints a day, more than the patient's system can stand if the treatment has to be repeated often-as it usually does. And all transfusions carry the risk of hepatitis infection or severe allergic reactions. It was not until 1965 that a Stanford University physiologist, Judith Graham Pool, developed a technique of freezing, thawing and centrifuging fresh plasma to concentrate the AHF. (The rest of the plasma could still be broken down into a dozen...
...really have nothing specific to say. The electric Everyman has hit town, it provides our summer with the ending of our wildest dreams, its faulted but perceptive vision is our gain, and you'd be nutty not to get there fast. More to follow Tuesday of a somewhat more analytic nature...