Word: guineas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...devoted mother of five children whose youngest was lost off New Guinea at the same time that her 31-year marriage was going down the drain, Mary Rockefeller has borne her tremendous personal tragedies with heroic silence and fortitude. She is a towering figure of strength and stability beside whom the Governor is a pygmy...
After Confinement, Liberty. The Navy intends to try tougher tests (one this summer to see how much heat men cooped up in a shelter can take) to study the physical factors of shelter life, but its volunteer guinea pigs are unlikely ever to experience the psychological stresses of real shelter life. The first test recruits were not told how long they would be confined, but they knew that they would eventually get out in good health. Aware that they were under observation, they carefully tended to squelch unsociable feelings; the Navy even let them have all the cigarettes they wanted...
...newly independent nations lack the traditions and the training to make democracy work. Yet such is the magic of the word that dictators use it to justify their own brand of one-man rule. Indonesia's Sukarno and Nepal's King Mahendra call it "guided democracy," Guinea's Touré has "total democracy," Egypt's Nasser his "presidential democracy." The strongman most entitled to claim "democracy" for an essentially undemocratic system may well be Pakistan's benevolent dictator, President Mohammed Ayub Khan. His catch phrase: "basic democracies...
...Thant, the man who finally was chosen to take over Hammarskjold's vacant post, performed his difficult task admirably. In the Congo crisis, he was tough and fast on his feet; his quiet diplomacy helped get Indonesia and The Netherlands to agree to negotiate the West New Guinea dispute. Along with respected President Slim, U Thant kept the Assembly serious and businesslike; in many ways, delegates found him more decisive than...
Professor Talalayev's spray is harmless to higher animals, including man. (Acting as his own guinea pig, he once swallowed a whole spoonful of the spray without ill effects.) The first tests have been so successful that the spray is being produced in large quantities by a factory in Moscow. There is also a possibility that the spray will control another leaf-eating caterpillar, which attacks deciduous trees. Another promising victim for Talalayev's biological warfare: the viciously biting black fly that makes life miserable each spring for man and beast in Siberia, Canada and the northern...