Word: findings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...living symbol of the insecurity that has haunted Poles for centuries is to be seen at Legnica, where thousands of Soviet troops are garrisoned. Yet, though unwillingly bound to Moscow, Poles find reason to think that even the West will acknowledge their claims. They noted happily that President Eisenhower, in his recent television broadcast on the Berlin crisis, used a map showing the western territories as part of Poland. They got a bigger lift last week from France's President de Gaulle. That stout friend of Konrad Adenauer insisted that enmity between Germans and French no longer exists...
...amateurs. Currently on safari in Kenya, Ruark writes: "I should think it likely that this will be my last proper big safari, and the thought grieves me. What I bemoan mainly is the loss of the old, wild freedom when you could take off in almost any direction and find something exciting without having to check a sheaf of papers, fill out questionnaires and worry about your time limits in any one area. The people were wild and the animals were wild and the living was wilder. The Africa I knew and loved so much a decade ago has changed...
...technician died after exposure to high-powered microwaves. Why? The examining doctor's explanation was that the microwaves caused "intolerable" heating of the man's tissues. Biologist John H. Heller doubted this explanation, suspected that the microwaves had somehow fatally altered the body's cells. To find out, he began experimenting with lower-powered radio waves at the New England Institute for Medical Research in Ridgefield, Conn. Last week in Britain's Nature, he and Dr. A. A. Teixeira-Pinto reported that their experiments had provided "a new physical method" for manipulating cells and their contents...
...inches of drawn-brass tubing requires the lung power of a bull moose and the finesse of a brindled gnu. What few trumpeters know is that while tootling they approximate the effects of "a formidable Valsalva maneuver," i.e., a hard nose-blow with nostrils and mouth blocked. To find out just how formidable the effects are, London's Dr. E. P. Sharpey-Schafer and California Musician Maurice Faulkner last summer sat down in London. Faulkner huffed his way through several trumpet passages, including a phrase from Wolfram's Song to the Evening Star in Act III of Tannh...
George Wilcken Romney, at 51, is a broad-shouldered, Bible-quoting broth of a man who burns brightly with the fire of missionary zeal. On the Lord's Day, and whenever else he can find time, he is a fervent apostle for the Mormon Church, in which he is a high official. But at all other times his missionary zeal is best defined by a plaque that hangs in the walnut-paneled Detroit office where he reigns as boss of American Motors. A facetious gift from the Cleveland Auto Dealers Association, it reads: "To George Romney, critic, lecturer, anthropologist...