Word: guineas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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KAINANTU, NEW GUINEA...
Never once did the British allow themselves to be drawn into the political wrangling. Instead, they contented themselves with a mild statement at the end of the meeting explaining that "our silence'' meant, not agreement with the anticolonial remarks, but only a "desire to preserve harmony." When Guinea, the only French territory to vote non to De Gaulle, proposed a resolution asking for special consideration from the U.N. in view of its "desertion" by France, the French merely stared ahead in silence, did not even bother to vote against the resolution. Africa's independent nations were clearly...
...have an operation. Recovery was slow, and Tom had to go on relief. Up to that time he had not let doctors study him, because of his sensitive feelings. Doctors were callously more interested in his stoma and stomach than in him. He refused to be a human guinea pig. But in 1941 at New York Hospital, Drs. Harold G. Wolff and Stewart Wolf made a deal: on their payroll, Tom would spend his mornings as a subject of medical study, his afternoons as a handyman around the laboratory. Peppery about his right of privacy, Tom made the doctors promise...
...different guise, not necessarily from Europe." When asked what he thought about the Africans from Cairo, Mboya bluntly declared that "they don't represent Kenya." As the conference went on half a mile away, Nkrumah whisked ratification for his union with the former French colony of Guinea† through his obedient Parliament, but unimpressed delegates from the Federation of Nigeria-itself on the edge of independence within the British Commonwealth-observed that the Ghana-Guinea union of 7,000,000 Africans would hardly be a realistic basis for a larger union of the 60 million people of French West...
Using U.S. students in Mexico City as willing guinea pigs, Dr. Kean and colleagues tested the value of drugs as preventives. They found that a popular nonprescription item, Entero-Vioform, gave no more protection than an inert (dummy) pill; an antibiotic, neomycin, appeared to give about 40% protection. But before they prescribe free-for-all use of such potent drugs as antibiotics and sulfas, the researchers want to know more about many factors, including viruses, as causes of globetrotters' trots...