Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These are not very dangerous amounts; the maximum permissible concentration of cobalt 60 in the human body is listed by the Bureau of Standards as three microcuries. A man would have to eat at least ten of the hot clams (20 Ibs. of flesh) to exceed this limit. But Weiss and Shipman cannot be sure that cobalt 60 was not heavily concentrated in some special part of the clam's tissue, increasing the danger proportionately...
...pink alabaster. In bronze, he achieved a rare sense of movement with his Dancing Mother. Happy Baby and Unicyclist. Whimsical and witty, all had the vigor and balance of circus performers; each in its own way celebrated Sculptor Gross's feeling for the beauty and joy of the human body...
Brains for Automation. For industrial automation, the new computers can be hooked into other electronic-control devices such as servo-mechanisms, which sense and correct their own errors, run entire plants without human help. Beyond the computers, the age of electronics has produced hundreds of knowing gadgets for every use under the sun. There are electronic elevator systems with miniature electronic brains that automatically keep track of passenger demand, electronic "Ph meters" that can test with equal ease the acidity of California's lemon juice or the radioactivity of the AEC's plutonium, electronic "stopwatches" for industrial...
Died. Bernard J. (Bernie) Wefers, 84, known in the 18903 as the "world's fastest human" for his unofficial record (9.4 sec.) in the 100-yd. dash (shaved to 9.3 sec. in 1948) and national champion in the 100-yd. and 220-yd. dashes in 1895, '96 and '97; in New York City...
...heat of the struggle, as the secret motives of the men emerge, the onlooker learns better than he could from any law-school course that the law is no better than the people who enforce it, and that the people who enforce it are all too human...