Word: field
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kenya's sweltering sun one morning last March, husky African warders herded 85 ragged prisoners out of the inner compound at Hola camp, 220 miles east of Nairobi, and into an adjacent field. The prisoners were the last hard-core remnants of Mau Mau terrorism. Each had taken the bloody oaths to kill, each had killed; many were sullen and confused men warped by their savagery. For all of them it was to be another day of digging on an irrigation ditch. Suddenly, as if by prearrangement, dozens of the prisoners fell to the ground, refusing to work...
...inadequately trained to undertake surgery." One of "the most distinguished surgeons in the world" (whom he would not identify) had told him, said Dr. Hawley, that at least half his current practice "consists of attempts to correct the bad results of surgery ... by doctors inadequately trained in this field...
Earning a Dowry. The Japanese electronics industry's most striking progress has been in the field of transistors. Output jumped from 11,600 in 1954 to 27 million last year, and this year it should pass 80 million, 70% more than...
...laboratory samples, brought them to the U.S. to arrange the first Japanese transistor-patent licensing agreement. While many U.S. electronics men concentrated on industrial and military uses of transistors. Ibuka went after the consumer market, started the Japanese fad for miniature radios, eventually attracted some 100 competitors into the field...
Died. Ludlow Griscom, 68, a leading U.S. field ornithologist who used to go bird watching with Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II; after long illness; in Cambridge. Mass...