Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discovered that X rays applied to fruit flies or any other living organism, create a wealth of mutations, apparently by damaging the genes in their chromosomes. Muller, too, won a Nobel Prize, and soon most genetics laboratories had X-ray machines and were buzzing with dwarfed, twisted, crippled or half-alive fruit flies whose ancestors had been Xrayed...
Bible Quiz. That was two years ago. Since then, Sant'Angelo in Villa has known little peace. Three parish priests came and went, and half the villagers boycotted the church. One day a young (33), eloquent Baptist minister came to the village, was challenged by a priest (and locally famed Bible expert) to a Bible quiz in Latin and Greek. After four hours and 45 minutes, the Baptist came out the popular victor. Encouraged by his success, Pastor Graziano Cannito began to hold services in a private house, soon chalked up 70 Sant'Angelo conversions. In nearby towns...
...carabinieri showed up with orders to stop construction; Pastor Cannito rushed to the district judge, who promised to review the case, meantime warned Cannito that if one more stone went up, the pastor would go to jail. By last week, work had been stopped on the half-finished Baptist Church of Sant'Angelo in Villa. Said Manfredi Ronchi, president of the Baptist Union of Italy: "If dark forces prevail, we will have to suffer...
...lodge on Hayden Lake in Idaho, now for sale at $95,000. "We don't live by soufflés alone," says Executive Vice President Robert T. Furman Jr. But Previews has made its reputation peddling white elephants and exotic properties. For $300,000 Tysen will sell a half share in an Irish distillery, for $182,000 the title to the Windward Island of Mustique, which Previews claims includes the right to appoint one's own parliament...
Trade with the Soviet bloc now accounts for 5.8% of West Germany's total foreign trade, but only 2.5% for France, 2.8% for Britain, 2% for Latin America, a mere one-half of 1% for the U.S., which does not trade with Red China. Easing the embargoes is expected to expand East-West trade slightly but not spectacularly. The real barriers to trade are the facts that the Communists often have not had the cash to buy or have not been able to sell what the West wants...