Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kudryavka (Little Curly), the first living creature to travel around the earth through space, first barked over the Moscow radio on Oct. 27. Dressed in a custom space suit, she had already ridden a short while before that in a rocket, and had suffered no ill effects. This week she made history as the passenger in Sputnik II-also called Muttnik...
...maniacal laughter shrilled through the walls of many a circular, windowless grass hut, echoing through the surrounding jungle. Sometimes, instead of the roaring laughter, there might be a fit of giggling. When a tribesman looked into such a hut, he saw no cause for merriment. The laugher was lying ill, exhausted by his guffaws, his face now an expressionless mask. He had no idea that he had laughed, let alone why. New Guinea's Fore (pronounced foray) tribe was afflicted by a deadly foe. It was kuru, the laughing death, a creeping horror hitherto unknown to medicine...
...last week resigned as Washington bureau chief of the New York Herald Tribune because of ill health and was replaced by Trib-man Robert J. (Eisenhower: The Inside Story) Donovan...
Asked Principal William H. Cornog of New Trier Township High School in Winnetka, Ill.: "How free and wide-ranging should your curriculum be? Not nearly as free and loose as it has become under the pressures of a consumer approach to public education." It is high time "we make the raw assumption that it is the mind of the student with which the school is most concerned" and not with his adjustment to society. "The schools are not in business to teach anything to anyone or everything to everyone. They are not to be confused . . . with shopping centers...
After a single forlorn year as a white "good-music" station, WDIA began beaming its voice at 1,230,000 Negroes who live within the 50,000-watt range from Cairo, Ill. to Jackson, Miss. It was soon heeded not only in homes and cars but in the fields, where cotton pickers still take portable radios to pick up the disk-jockey ramblings of Theo ("Bless My Bones") Wade and such musical shows as Tan Town Coffee Club, Wheelin' on Beale and Hallelujah Jubilee. Despite the jazzy titles, WDIA favors spirituals over romp-and-stomp music...