Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With no political dexterity at all, the U.S. military government authorities on Okinawa moved two months ago to remove a political irritant-skinny little pro-Communist Kamejiro Senaga, mayor of Okinawa's capital and chief city, Naha. The method: Lieut. General James E. Moore, U.S. High Commissioner, rewrote Naha's laws to permit the city assembly's conservative majority to oust the mayor on a vote of no confidence, then effectively barred his re-election by decreeing that no convicted felons could hold office (Senaga was jailed by the U.S. authorities in 1954 for harboring a Japanese...
...denied Salk's theory that formaldehyde kills polio virus particles in a neat, straight-line fashion. "I have seen many times where the curve does not follow that theory," he said-and not only in his own laboratory, but also in big vaccine factories. As for the testing methods before the "incident," Dr. Stanley declared: "In the light of subsequent knowledge, they were grossly inadequate." The implication: given the testing methods then in force plus a basically unpredictable method of vaccine-making, things could go wrong without any negligence...
...with Christianity. Warned Anglican Bishop Solomon Odutola of Eastern Nigeria: "The spirit behind Islam is 'What shall I do to be saved?" The average person prefers Islam's simple answer of what to do. It appeals to him more than Christianity's deeper and more complicated method of what to be, to be saved...
...method of freezing blood used above-freezing temperatures and permitted storage for a maximum of only 21 days. The new process will permit the stockpiling of blood for defense...
Blood frozen by the new method is being regularly used in transfusions at Boston hospitals. Tullis, who is also senior investigator on the research staff of the Protein Foundation, has said that blood stored 20 months has proven to be as effective as blood frozen only 21 days...