Word: isolationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to Dr. Harold B. Pepinsky of Ohio State University, the ideal person to send on the first long space voyage would be a female midget who is a graduate of M.I.T. with a Ph.D. in physics. He added that it might be a good idea if she were psychotic...
Industrial Psychologist Donald N. Michael of Stamford, Conn, suggested that the best place to look for such women might be Russia, where women are encouraged to develop technical skill. The Soviet government, he had heard, is experimenting with putting women in isolation chambers to see whether they will prove to...
¶Preliminary tests on 55 volunteers at the state correction institution at Patuxent. Md. show the vaccine gives "definite"* protection against Asian flu. Those who came down with flu despite taking shots had no complications. A combination of shots and isolation kept the disease from spreading to other patients.
¶ To save an estimated $150,000 in the armed forces economy drive (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the U.S. Air Force decided to drop all foreign language courses for the 20,000 children now enrolled in U.S. Air Force schools in Europe and the Middle East. Air Force elementary and high...
"My first word must be a word of thanks to God, who blessed us by providing the opportunity .to visit America." The gaunt, grey man had been in the U.S. before: the worn black suit he was wearing had been given him by a grateful congregation in New Brunswick, N.J...