Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joseph Nye Welch, 63, the Army's special counsel for the investigation, speaks with a honeyed fluency and a meaningful grin that hints of legal cunning. Iowa-born Welch, a Boston lawyer, when in his Boston office, does most of his work standing at a high, old-fashioned clerk's desk...
Governor Alexander, now 65, was born in Ottumwa, Iowa. The son of a janitor, he worked his way through the University of Iowa, was a three-letter football tackle, graduated in engineering in 1912. He formed his own contracting business two years later and is now head of prosperous Alexander & Repass, builders (among many projects) of Washington's K Street Freeway along the Potomac...
...Researchers at the State University of Iowa seem to have found the perfect contraceptive-for rats. While they were fed nitrofuran compounds (chemicals obtained from oat hulls), male rats produced no spermatozoa, Dr. Warren 0. Nelson reported, but later they recovered their fertility and sired normal young. The University of Texas' Dr. Donald Duncan, edging out on a limb, said nitrofuran "could be the [human] contraceptive of the future...
...woman suffragette in Iowa is more likely to have heard of the Radcliffe Women's Archives than most 'Cliffites. Little known in the college community, it is the foremost, and practically unique, collection on American Women and their contributions to history...
Lester B. Scherer (Capt.) of Des Moines, Iowa...