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...second-rate target to boot, Kyoto escaped bombing. Last week, amid spring's pink and white cherry blossoms, Kyoto seemed full of changeless charm. But beneath the surface stirred the changes of postwar U.S. occupation and tutelage. Surveying the scene, TIME Correspondent Sam Welles found the ferment "still far from democracy, but fascinating and startling...
...Yeast. The year was full of yeasty ferment; it bubbled up with new industries, gave new leaven to old ones. The television industry, which had optimistically hoped to make 600,000 sets, proved a bad guesser; it turned out 800,000, by year's end it was working at a 2,000,000-a-year clip. In its revolutionary sweep, television scared the wits out of radio (radio set production dropped 24% under 1947) and Hollywood (which hastily decided to join rather than try to beat the enemy). It promised industry an entirely new technique in remote control...
Since cancer cells ferment as they grow, Warburg had suggested finding a substance that would stop the fermentation. Now, he announced that he had found an "anti-zymohexase," and that enough zymohexase can be drawn from the body to make large quantities of the anti-enzyme...
...Ferment. The nation had half forgotten the kind of convulsions with which it had been seized in the years after World War I. The U.S. had not only been hellbent to shake off the past, but full of a kind of callow hunger for sensation. The flapper who bobbed her hair, bound her breasts and wore knee-length skirts was almost duty-bound to get "blotto" by drinking gin from hip flasks. "I want to live my own life," cried the '20's movie heroine, and millions tried to imitate her. Literature was full of ferment, religion...
...itself face to face with a question of policy: on what conditions shall permission to hold rallies be granted? This is a problem that has needed consideration for some time, and if its increased urgency at present can bring about a codification of the College's position, undergraduate political ferment will have brought about at least one positive accomplishment...