Word: labs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brodie, 58, chief of the chemical pharmacology laboratory at the National Heart Institute in Bethesda, Md., whose work has had the effect of upgrading the usefulness of animals as test patients for new drugs. Because different animal species utilize drugs at vastly unequal rates, scientists could apply experimental lab animal results to human patients only in limited ways. But Brodie found that if dosages were gauged to produce comparable levels in the blood plasma, there was less variation in the effects...
There was almost nothing in Leo Held's life that could have presaged the end of it. Held, 40, a burly (6 ft., 200 lbs.), balding lab technician at a Lock Haven, Pa., paper mill, had been a school-board member, Boy Scout leader, secretary of a fire brigade, churchgoer and affectionate father. Certainly he bickered occasionally with his neighbors, drove too aggressively over the hilly highways between his Loganton home and the mill, and sometimes fretted about the job that he held for 19 years. But to most of his neighbors and coworkers, he was a paragon...
...apiece, at least 30 shots in all. One bullet shattered a transformer, adding darkness to the sudden panic; yet throughout his ten-minute rampage, Held displayed the calm proficiency of a man who has mapped his assault in advance. Shot dead were Supervisors Carmen H. Edwards and Richard Davenport, Lab Technicians Allen R. Barrett and Elmer E. Weaver, and Superintendent Donald V. Walden. Picking his targets with care as he strode through the mill, Held also wounded James Allen, a superintendent; Richard Carter, a lab technician; David Overdorf, a machine operator, and a manager, Woodrow Stultz...
...some cases have been quietly encouraged by faculty members-are intended to disrupt Dow's current campus recruiting efforts. Despite the campaign of harassment, however, the company is running at about the same pace as last year in signing up graduating students. At Harvard last week Dow Lab Director Frederick Leavitt was barricaded for seven hours in a conference room by 250 students demanding that Harvard officials ban him from the campus. University officials instead picked up the I.D. cards of the protesting students, pondered whether to punish them...
...famous verse, Yeats diagnosed his age as a time when the best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are full of passionate intensity. In this spirit, Leonard Woolf, British Lib-Lab intellectual, publisher, politician and husband of Novelist Virginia, has written the fourth installment of his autobiography. Its value as a document of an age and a class grows with each volume...