Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Empty Franks. The least surprising fact of Tom Parker's life is that it began in a traveling carnival which his parents worked. Orphaned as a child, he worked for his uncle's Great Parker Pony Circus, had his own pony-and-monkey act when he was in his teens. Barker, merry-go-round operator, candied-apple dipper, ice shaver for snow cones and general man-about-the-midway, he once took a job as a dogcatcher in Tampa, Fla., where he gave away hundreds of puppies to kids...
...Monkey Tricks. In San Francisco, five coeds from San Francisco City College were arrested after climbing a fence in the zoo, romping with the monkeys...
...Monkey. Both Sabin and Cox asserted that there is enough evidence from millions of oral vaccinations in a score of foreign countries to show that their vaccines are safe and sure.* But each insisted that his own was better than either of its two rivals. (Dr. Sabin has attacked the third vaccine, developed by the Wistar Institute's Dr. Hilary Koprowski, charging that it contains viruses that cause disease in monkeys and might be dangerous for man.) Dr. Sabin gives his vaccine in three separate doses a month apart-one for each main type of polio virus...
...followed by the disastrous Cutter incident (TIME, May 9 1955 et seq.}, is now twice shy about licensing an oral vaccine. Main concern is that the weakened viruses sometimes revert, in the human stomach and intestines, to a form that is more likely to cause paralysis in test monkeys. Baylor University's Dr. Joseph L. Melnick settled a years-long argument with conclusive proof of this. But nobody knows whether the monkey test (involving direct injection into the brain or spinal fluid) is a good indicator of what might happen...
Some 900 miles north and 1,800 miles west of the spot where the celebrated Scopes "Monkey Trial" shocked the world, and a full 35 years later, the state of Washington's supervisor of curriculum guides, John M. Howell, announced: "Now, of course, no one really believes the Darwinian theory ... If Darwinian evolution is true, then the Bible is untrue, and I prefer to hold by the Old Book rather than to accept a worthless theory...