Word: maye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...declared that "cyclamate is safe for human consumption as presently used in the diet." Finch, too, had his doubts about the chick tests. "We ought to have more than two species before we indict an agent," he chided. "We can push too hard, too fast, and make statements that may or may not be true and create all kinds of problems...
...Verrett was furious. "My studies were not false," she said, insisting that on the basis of her work and that of her associate, Dr. Marvin Legator, cyclamate may well produce deformities, transmissible mutations or cancer-or all three. "Mr. Finch does not seem to consider that the next species might be human. It's impossible to predict what the effects might be in other animal species, including man, but the fact that we do have a positive result indicates the need for further investigation of its effects." Dr. Verrett accused the FDA of dragging its feet, pointing out that...
...moment the center's situation room may be monitoring events as varied as an outbreak of leaf-cutting ants in Peru, an unusual polar bear kill in the Arctic, or the drift of a floating island in the Caribbean. After the flight of Apollo 11, it reported the lunar rumblings recorded by the seismometer left behind at Tranquillity Base. Even the recent discovery of a primitive jungle tribe in Surinam fell within the category of passing phenomena. Reason: the Indians' Stone Age culture will change so rapidly under the impact of civilization that anthropologists may lose a rare...
Nature's brute strength is never more frightening than during a major earthquake. The earth shifts with a sickening sway. Gaping fissures open in the ground. If the temblor strikes a populated area, roads may be torn up, buildings toppled and untold lives lost - as happened in Northeast Iran last year, when as many as 22,000 people were killed in two successive quakes. Such destructive force seems as devastating as a man-made nuclear blast. Fascinated by the awesome similarity, three Uni versity of Miami seismologists have now proposed using the power of the atom to tame...
...idea presents enormous difficulties. Seismologists would have to know exactly where and when to explode the bombs-an art that still eludes them, although they may eventually be able to predict quakes by carefully calculating earth stresses. Still more delicate would be the decision on the size of the bomb. The Miami seismologists-Cesare Emiliani, Christopher G. A. Harrison and Mary Swanson-say that the job probably could be done by high-yield nuclear devices of one to ten megatons, presumably H-bombs. But other seismologists point out that an explosion meant only to keep the earth's crust...