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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caesium 137, which is a genetic peril because it spreads throughout the body. ¶ Strontium 90, which affects the bones, especially of young children, because it is absorbed like calcium. ¶ Carbon 14, which has a half-life of 5,700 years and has probably risen in all living matter -3%-.6% since the beginning of nuclear weapons tests...
...cartoonland, basketball centers are lean and heron-legged, fullbacks loom half a mile high, thoroughbreds trade wisecracks with their jockeys on the drive to the wire. More startling, his situations may be parodies of a Keats poem or a Steinbeck novel. A literate wit, plus a newsman's flair for capsuling the essence of a story, is the mark of Sports Cartoonist Willard Harlan Mullin, 55, of the Scripps-Howard New York World-Telegram and Sun (circ...
Naturalization laws prodded the nation's early foreign-speaking immigrants to learn English, but the 700,000 Puerto Ricans who now form 10% of New York City's population were U.S. citizens when they arrived, and about half of them continue to speak nothing but Spanish. Last week, by the early dawning (6:307 a.m.) light of TV, some of them were learning their new home's native tongue. The program: WRCA-TV's Aqui se Habla Ingles (English Spoken Here...
Demythologization? In the last half-century, said Dr. Wilhelm Pauck, a Congregationalist and professor of church history at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, Christianity has suffered serious blows: 1) in terms of influence, it has become a minority movement in the world, and 2) the faithful have deserted organized churches in droves. In short, "Christianity stands at the fringe of the common life today. It no longer shapes it." What happened? According to Dr. Pauck, the fault lies with the churches, which "have refused to demythologize the Gospel . . . They have lost the people because they do not speak...
...Doherty of the Atomic Energy Commission's famed Oak Ridge National Laboratory: several compounds built around S, 2-aminoethylisothiuronium (or AET) have been given to rats and mice, monkeys and dogs. Then the animals have been exposed to radiation. Figuring that 400 r. (see SCIENCE) will kill half the animals or human beings exposed to it, Researchers Doherty and Raymond Shapira doubled the dose. Whereas all untreated animals died, nearly all those given a suitable dose of AET survived...