Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. William M. Fechteler, 71, four-star admiral, an old-fashioned "black-shoe" (in Navy talk, a pure sailor as opposed to a brown-shoe, or flyer) who learned his profession aboard destroyers and battleships, in World War II led amphibious assaults on New Guinea and the Philippines, in 1951 was named Chief of Naval Operations during the Korean War buildup, then took over as Commander in Chief of Allied Forces in Southern Europe until his retirement in 1956; of a heart attack; in Bethesda...
...from both ends. The baby elephant ran off in terror. A peacock, its tail feathers sore after having been yanked for hours, bit a four-year-old girl in the face. What the kids did not manhandle they made off with, including a number of turtles, pigeons, rabbits and guinea pigs...
...pilot for applying Litton's systems engineering to similar projects abroad. Already in the works: a deal with Lisbon for joint development of Alentejo, a region in central and southern Portugal. Says Litton Chairman Tex Thornton: "We're using Greece and Portugal as sort of guinea pigs...
Since penicillin molecules are not proteins, he reasoned, they must somehow get hooked up to a protein. Sure enough, when he had basic penicillin preparations put through careful laboratory separation procedures, two fractions appeared: a pure penicillin that did not cause reactions in sensitized guinea pigs and a minute quantity of a second substance that produced violent reactions. This second substance proved to be a large protein molecule, with part of the penicillin molecule attached. The protein can be removed in the final stages of manufacture, thus making injected penicillin much safer for the non-sensitized patient...
Died. Dr. Hein von Diringshofen, 67, German pioneer in aviation and space medicine, who in the early 1930s was the first to study the effects of high gravity forces and weightlessness on the human body, frequently used himself as a guinea pig in hell-diving Stukas and free-fall parachute jumps, in 1934 constructed the first experimental human centrifuge, predecessor of the ones now used in training astronauts, later served as the Luftwaffe's chief medical officer in World War II; of cancer; in Frankfurt, Germany...