Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Women. Back in Hiroshima, Kiyoshi Kikawa lies in the hospital for bomb victims. His arms and back are covered with a mass growth of scar tissue called keloids. Said he last week: "Tell them in America that I would have been happy to die, but I am living with this [pointing to his back]. Something good must come of this. I now want to be sent to the U.S. so doctors can experiment with my body. It does not matter if I die so long as I can be of some use to a world of peace...
Candid Mike already looks like a solid hit. Last week 800 enthusiastic listeners wrote in-including some sociologists, scientists, radio technicians-"the most literate fan mail" Funt has ever seen. The dissenting minority, if there was any, could take its cue from the Pittsfield (Mass.) Berkshire Eagle, which said: "With this new Machiavellian inspiration, radio crosses the last threshold of privacy. . . . The whole country seems likely to be plagued with hidden microphones...
Last spring, in a directive to all principals, the School Board of Superintendents reasserted the city's mass-promotion policy. Immediately, all 144 faculty members of the Olney High School rose up in protest. "The directive," they declared, "implies that every pupil is to be advanced from grade to grade, regardless of attendance, behavior, or ability. The chief criterion is to be chronological age. Pupils having been exposed to this 'something-for-nothing' policy . . . will be unprepared to meet real life. . . ." Emboldened, 14 of the city's 16 high schools joined the battle. Individual teachers began...
Greener Pastures. At the end of the "migrating phase," the slug contracts to a blob, and rises into the air on a long, slender stalk. After this "culmination," the mass breaks up, and about 60% of the cells resume their solitary lives; the rest die. The entire cycle takes about four days. Dr. Bonner believes that the process has some "survival value," perhaps allowing the cells to dodge inimical conditions, or helping them migrate to greener bacterial pastures...
...lines, once way ahead, could now see a handful of foreign lines, state-supported in varying degrees, creeping up on their tails. On the choicest route-the North Atlantic-the American lines were still well in front. The Pacific Ocean was still an American lake. But over the land mass of Asia, the British, Dutch and French lines were pressing hard; Air France has just opened a new run to Hong Kong from French Indo-China; the British Overseas Airways Corp. has added a leg to Ceylon from Karachi...