Word: frankness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since given more than $2,000,000 to the J. K. and Susie L. Wadley Research Institute in Dallas. When he turned 90, Wadley was confident that the Institute had now struck it rich in cancer research. At his party, he told how nine-year-old Frank Hayes Jr. had been in the last stages of acute leukemia when Dr. Joseph M. Hill began giving him injections of the bacterial extract, L-asparaginase. Within a month, the boy's grotesquely swollen glands had shrunk, and analysis of his blood cells showed no active cancer. Dr. Hill warned Wadley that...
...staff that compiled only 22 complete games all year. Their relievers saved them last year, but Stu Miller is approaching 40, Moe Drabowsky's 7-0 record was preceded by a 48-81 and 4.19 ERA lifetime mark, and Dick Hall is gone. Luis Aparicio, Boog Powell, Frank Robinson. Russ Snyder, and Paul Blair batted an average of 25 points higher than their career marks accumulated over a total of 39 years...
Edward C. Banfield, Garrett Birkhoff '32, John N. D. Bush, Giles Constable '50, Elliot Forbes '40, Frank B. Freidel Jr., John K. Fairbank '29, George W. Goethals '43, Albert O. Hirschman, Samuel P. Huntington, Howard M. Jones, and George B. Kistiakowsky...
...sports in which the losers are often better remembered than the winners. The most famous figure in the 116-year history of the cup is Britain's Sir Thomas Lipton, who tried five times to wrest it away from the U.S. Australia's Sir Frank Packer, 60, is obviously cast from the Lipton mold...
...Lifetime. For every American woman who has rejected the pills because of conscious doubt or uncon scious fears and guilt, a dozen have accepted them. Says Dr. Richard Frank, medical chief of Chicago's Planned Parenthood clinics: "More than five million women can't be wrong about the acceptability of the pills." This impressive total, according to the 1965 National Fertility Study,* means that of all white American women using any form of contraception, 24% are on the pills. Broken down, it shows 27% pill use among Protestants, 22% among Jews, 18% among Roman Catholics. This last figure...