Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moral rather than scientific. Professors George W. Beadle and Alfred Henry Sturtevant of Caltech's biology division speak for this group. They believe that bomb testing is dangerous to the world at large and should be held to a minimum, but they do not know how to balance human danger against the military advantage that may be won by testing. "We don't know what is gained by the tests," says Dr. Beadle. "We don't know how valuable they are." Dr. Sturtevant adds: "It seems to me that the public is entitled to a more detailed...
...game in four weeks, at a husky $3,500 a point, Greenwich Village Artist Jim Snodgrass, 34, and Medical Research Consultant Hank Bloomgarden, 28, both answered correctly a ten-point question on European royalty, then went for the tough eleven-pointer: Name the five groups of bones in the human spinal column (see diagram). A onetime pre-med student, Snodgrass began with a noun, "sacrum," was ruled out by M.C. Jack Barry, whose answer card listed the adjective "sacral." Then Bloomgarden ticked off "sacral," "cervical," "thoracic," "lumbar" and "coccyx," was abruptly ruled correct and the winner...
...tests. Viscount Cherwell, Churchill's wartime scientific adviser, is vehement against "hysterical people" who would sacrifice "a deterrent which would probably save us from a war costing millions of lives" on the ground "that our tests might harm the health of a completely negligible part of the human race." British medical authorities are not so sure. The authoritative medical journal Lancet urges "immediate abandonment of all further nuclear explosions...
...biography of Barney Ross (Cameron Mitchell), onetime lightweight (1933) and welterweight (1934-38) boxing champion of the world.* The story starts with Barney's famous victory over Jimmy McLarnin, describes his wastrel ways as champion, and soon comes to his downfall under the whirling assault of the human pinwheel, Henry Armstrong. In the next few years, as the film tells the story, Barney gambles away his restaurant business and (for the time being) the affection of his best girl (Dianne Foster), winds up in the Marines during World...
...induce acute nausea. Yet for those who can take it, the book provides the grisly fascination which clings to any dissection of rottenness. Fowlers End is a fictional section of London so far gone in vice, filth and despair that its inhabitants seem bent on denying that they are human. Hogarth would have shuddered at the thought of setting foot there. Nevertheless the book is a comedy, its gruesome humor capable of starting up belly laughs that guiltily stop in the throat...