Word: health
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jules Freund, 69, of the National Institutes of Health, for adding oils to vaccines, making them far more potent...
...Barbara. A genial, rugged down-Easter, raised on a Maine farm, Dixon is an Antioch graduate (1939). He did the school's part-time circuit (alternating terms of study and work) by night clerking and bus building, went on to Harvard Medical School and a career in public health. Dr. Dixon did a notable seven-year job as Philadelphia's commissioner of public health, became known as an able administrator with a keen sense of politics. At Antioch, which has some reputation for progressive preciousness as well as for successful schooling, Dixon announced that he aims to "invade...
...fact that the slide will not be more severe is a good indication of the basic health of the U.S. economy. Despite the steel strike, most sectors of the economy are moving along steadily. To help offset a bigger drop caused by inventory depletion, the gross national product will benefit in the third quarter by increases of $1 billion in state and local expenditures, $1 billion in new plant and equipment, $3 billion in consumer spending. "Despite the crippling of one of the nation's chief industries," said the First National City Bank of New York in its monthly...
...ripening of the skins guarantees enough tannin to give the wine full color and long life. Though cautious growers say that 1959's "character" cannot be judged for twelve months, others proclaim loudly that the wine will have the velvet taste of a superlative year. Because of the health of the harvest, France's winemakers foresee substantially increased exports and possibly lower prices. The U.S., which annually takes 5% of France's export production, will find prices down although the quality will...
...understand himself. Writing his Memoirs, near 70, he wryly discussed the illness "which the Italians call mal français." Wrote he, sounding puzzled: "The greatest part of my life was spent in trying to make myself ill, and when I had succeeded, in trying to recover my health. [Now] age, that cruel and unavoidable disease, compels me to be in good health in spite of myself...