Word: guineas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Conakry: he had merely transported them, not captured them. But he had many another adventurous tale to tell-of spearfishing in the shark-infested waters off Dakar, of a near-drowning as he shot underwater pictures during a raging Atlantic storm, of a 1,200-mile trek through French Guinea and of the difficulties involved in helping his Negro valet purchase a wife in a native village (price: 200,000 francs...
...Europe). Just as busy on a smaller scale is the Navy, with most of its air-medical research directed the by top U.S. Captain Ashton Graybiel, one of the top U.S. heart experts. Scores of university laboratories are helping the armed forces. Eager researchers are using themselves as guinea pigs for experiments in low-pressure chambers, on high-speed centrifuges and rocket-powered sleds. They are toiling up the Andes to find out how Peruvian Indians stand the strain of high altitude, breathing radioactive gases, and sweating in 122° chambers on low oxygen...
...controversial: colonialism cut sharply across friendships, alliances and cold-war loyalties when Indonesia demanded debate on its proposal to eject the Dutch from Western New Guinea and Greece demanded a plebiscite to decide whether strategically prized Cyprus should remain British or go to Greece. The U.S., on the spot between its anticolonial instincts and its Allies, abstained in both cases. In balloting that joined Latin Americans, Arabs and Israelis with the Communists and split the five signers of the new Manila Pact three ways, the Assembly voted to take up both cases...
...MacArthur's most devoted staffers, German-born General Willoughby* used to keep a whole shelf of books about his chief behind his desk in 1944 at advanced headquarters in the New Guinea jungle. After World War II, his Tokyo staff prepared an elaborate history of MacArthur's exploits at which Army department historians were not allowed a peek. These "MacArthur histories" provide the basis for the best part of this unevenly documented book. Willoughby is happiest describing the Southwest Pacific campaigns in which MacArthur was so magnificently right, advancing by more than 100 amphibious landings to his promised...
...Another guinea pig now in the Bethesda center is 24-year-old Robert Brantner (Brethren) of Lanark, Ill. In metabolism studies he is being kept on a rice diet in an effort to make this unsalted. monotonous regimen (usually prescribed to keep down water retention in heart cases) less wearisome and more nourishing. The trouble has been that because it lacks protein the rice-fruit menu causes the dieter to burn up his own body proteins. Metabolism experts have tried to prevent this in Brantner's case by adding two amino acids, lysine and threonine, to his diet. Also...