Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Judge Polier based her defense of Israel's "open doors" on the assertion that "in the twentieth century human rights are often identical with national rights...
...Hungarian-born Joseph Peter Vajk, 16, is news editor of the Princeton (N.J.) high school paper, and has a lead role in a school play. He won $3,000 with a paper theorizing that fallout will speed up human evolution...
...power to cause disease. A few occur that way in nature. Most are formerly virulent strains that have been "attenuated" by growing them in animals (or eggs) that are not their natural prey. These must then be tested to make sure that after being allowed to grow in the human digestive system they do not revert to virulent form. No such reversion to type has been detected in tests that have now covered more than a million subjects...
...years ultrasonics meant something only to dogs and other subhuman creatures. One of the few uses of ultra-high sound waves was in whistles, too high-pitched for human ears, to call pets. Today ultrasonics is an exciting new technological frontier. Last year the ultrasonics industry's commercial and military sales reached $25 million, and in 1959 they are expected to double. Last week industry experts estimated that within five years there will be a $150 million annual market for ultrasonic* equipment...
...Adams; brilliant Defense Counsel Geoffrey Lawrence produced the actual sickroom records kept by the nurses, and the discrepancy between what they remembered six years later and what they had actually written down at the time rendered their evidence absurd. Finally, there was the medical mystery of the human constitution: were the injections excessive or were they reasonable to keep the patient comfortable? Were they fatal or would Mrs. Morell have died anyway? Physicians' testimony was neatly split...