Word: got
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Squeeze Play. In Tampa, Fla., state highway Trooper K. E. Flint picked up a drunk in his patrol car, stopped and got out to collar a second, watched the first drive off in the police...
...report last week of an accurate way to tell, as early as the eleventh week of pregnancy, whether a woman will have one baby, twins or triplets. In the A.M.A. Journal, three Navy doctors said they used the electroencephalograph (brainwave machine), pasted leads to the women's abdomens, got recordings of electrical impulses that indicated the number of fetal hearts. The method, they noted, is far safer (for both mother and children) than X rays. Source of the data: servicemen's wives at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Portsmouth...
...University of Rochester, he picked up hepatitis, put the experience to good use by publishing his first paper ("The Occurrence of Jaundice in Otherwise Normal Medical Students") while still a student. Explaining his year at N.Y.U. to learn about enzymes from Ochoa, Kornberg says: "I got tired of feeding things into one end of an experiment and watching something come out of the other without understanding what goes on in the middle." Besides mothering their three sons, Sylvy Ruth Kornberg, M.S., has co-authored many papers with her husband, works full time in his Stanford University laboratory...
...pioneered with plans to have communities build midget medical centers and lease them (sometimes at $1 a year) to doctors in sectors remote from hospitals. The Sears, Roebuck Foundation works through the A.M.A. in offering communities help in planning, financing, building and equipping the centers. Last week Dr. Sills got his permanent license from the Georgia Board of Medical Examiners, was one of hundreds of doctors happily settled in country practices under such schemes in the last ten years...
...Acreage. The trouble for both farmers and taxpayers lies in the new corn-support laws passed by Congress last year. Under the old system, farmers who voluntarily restricted their acreage were protected by a support price of $1.36 per bu., while those who planted all they wanted to plant got only $1.06. The new law, supported by both Republicans and Democrats, aimed at compromise with a straight $1.12 per bu., with no attempt to control acreage. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson rashly guessed that there would be little increase in corn production. Even when farmers disclosed their intentions...