Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nerve. From then on, the twinges came hard and fast. Neutral Ireland, to the dismay of neutral India, sought support for an Assembly resolution branding Red China a violator of human rights by its repression in Tibet. Ghana's Ako-Adjei charged that Nyasaland is "a police state under British rule." Belgium's Pierre Wigny announced that his country is "now organizing political democracy" in the riot-swept Congo, and Austria's Dr. Bruno Kreisky warned that if Italy does not grant autonomy to the German-speaking people of the South Tyrol-an area that Italy acquired...
...Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Thus, 19 years ago, Winston Churchill hailed the pilots of the R.A.F.'s Spitfires and Hurricanes, which day after nightmare day in the summer and autumn of 1940 rose up to defy the waves of German bombers boring in on Britain. And ever since the war, on the third Sunday in September, Britain has commemorated The Few with an R.A.F. flypast over London. Traditionally, one Spitfire and one Hurricane have led the way for a formation of the modern jets that have...
...unemployment statistics. But to Soren, the Red-lining General Federation of Korean Residents in Japan, the Koreans are unwilling exiles. Loudly insisting that at least 120,000 of the Koreans in Japan yearn to go to Communist North Korea, Soren has repeatedly demanded mass repatriation as "a basic human right." Last February, after the North Korean government grandly chimed in with an offer to take in all of Japan's Korean residents at once, the Japanese government surrendered to temptation. Shrugging off the Communist propaganda triumph that seemed certain to result, Tokyo announced that any Korean who really wanted...
...program, 15,000 Koreans showed up at the ward offices, but only 117 signed up. The rest went at the behest of Korean Communist leaders to protest the repatriation plan. The last-minute question about a change of mind, insisted the Reds would be "a breach of human rights." Tight as their control over their followers appeared, the Reds had not forgotten that in U.N. prisoner-of-war camps at the end of the Korean war, a similar questioning process had turned up an embarrassing 14,000 Chinese Communist soldiers who, in the last analysis, preferred homesickness to slavery...
...Alamos' Omega West is a swimming-pool-type research reactor whose fuel rods are suspended under 25 ft. of water, which acts not only as coolant and moderator but also shields its human operators from radioactivity. In the spring of 1958, physicists peering down through it saw that the water was getting cloudy. They called Chemist-Bacteriologist Eric B. Fowler of the laboratory's radioactive-waste disposal group, who found that it was swarming with microorganisms, about i billion per quart. The bugs turned out to be rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas, which were feeding...