Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present Saigon staff includes a varied crew of correspondents. Bureau Chief Marsh Clark is a Middle Westerner who was political editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat before coming to TIME. Wallace Terry, who will soon go to Harvard as a Nieman Fellow, is an ordained Disciples of Christ minister. William Marmon, a Virginian with a Princeton degree, once taught school in Greece. John Wilhelm, a Florida native, used to be a TIME correspondent in Washington. Chicago-born Burton Pines studied at the University of Wisconsin and was working in Heidelberg on his Ph.D. in history when he was hired...
After a coup succeeds, the plotters must demobilize their own forces lest the commanders-a treacherous lot by definition-get ideas about a "coup-within-the-coup." The new group should then "freeze" the situation by raising army pay, promoting fellow plotters, barring any flight of refugees, and flooding the radio with calls for sacrifice to cure the alleged sins of the deposed rulers...
...their self-disgust may stem from not having been rebellious enough. A prose-poem called The Parliament of Clan Thomas (circa 1650) derides the peasantry for selling out to Oliver Cromwell and becoming, coincidentally, Uncle Toms. And after the Rising of 1916, the rebels were actually jeered by their fellow citizens. A few of the noncombatants later came to blather a good fight, but far more of them lapsed into political indifference and deeper cynicism, which is why, for some years after independence, this colorful country produced the world's drabbest politics...
...rubella came in 1961, when two groups of investigators, one headed by Dr. Thomas Weller at Harvard, the other led by Dr. Paul D. Parkman at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, isolated the virus and devised ways of cultivating it in the laboratory. Parkman and a fellow pediatrician, Dr. Harry M. Meyer Jr., subsequently teamed up to attenuate or "tame" the virus so that, in a vaccine, it would cause no disease but would still trigger the making of antibodies and thereby produce immunity. Their strain, which was dubbed HPV-77, is the basis of the vaccine...
...manual also contains instructions on how to make oneself afraid, including terse scary stories. One is about a man who squeezes a tiny woman out of a tube of toothpaste. Another poor fellow discovers blood leaking from minuscule teeth marks under his watch band. Not bad-though for chilling empathy, neither surpasses an anonymous genius's unpublished masterpiece about sliding down a bannister and having it suddenly change into a razor blade...