Word: kent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kent Floerke...
...Clark Kent could have slipped into Peru peaceably enough, but as Superman he'd have had to make like a bird. The Education Ministry banned him and 14 other comics because "their illogical and immoral actions contribute to unsettle children's imagination." Fortunately, Lima beansprouts love him almost as much as does Metropolis. Protests mushroomed, and the prestigious El Correo thundered, "Is this the first step toward censorship of the press?" It was, for sure. And two days later the ministry backstepped faster than a herd of crooks downed by a supersock...
Early diagnosis means that insulin or other treatment may help prevent such complications as hypertension, calcified arteries, and blindness. And the DAC test, developed by Drs. Gerald Kent and Jack Leonards of Western Reserve University, detects the disease even before sugar begins to appear in the urine-where it is now picked up by conventional testing...
...Cleveland, whenever a cardboard test strip turns blue, a second blood sample is taken for more thorough testing in the Kent-Leonards auto-analyzer at Western Reserve. If this test is also positive, the subject is asked to come in for a third check; if diabetes is still indicated, the subject's doctor is informed by letter, then by a telephone followup. Thus far, the tests have turned up a 4.5% incidence of diabetes among Clevelanders, and Kent and Leonards suspect that the old estimate of approximately 1% for the entire U.S. is far too low. They hope...
...Edmund the bastard son of Gloucester. Bramhall dominates the big Loeb stage and plays a cunning, cold-hearted bastard with wonderful confidence and relish. Standing near Bramhall are Lear's fool, Harry Smith, who seems too bitter, too sharp at first, but who persuades us finally; the Earl of Kent, Yann Weymouth, who acts with welcome restraint amid the general ranting; and Edgar, Richard Backus, who makes a fine fool and a noble Edgar. John Ross as Albany and Thomas Weisbuch as Cornwall both perform well, but they are in demanding company. John Lithgow plays an irregular Gloucester. His blinding...