Word: muir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sculpture of William Muir looks something like polished driftwood; but nature, with all her wisdom, cannot seem to match by accident what Muir shapes by design. With rasps, rifflers and chisels, he has liberated a splendiferous Eden filled with elegant new phyla of plant life. Now on view at Manhattan's Sculpture Center, Muir's subtly swiveling works exchange contours with the space that surrounds them, earning comparisons with the smooth biomorphic bulges that mark the sculpture of Arp, Moore and Brancusi...
...three other Harvard climbers were Peter T. Carman '64, Larry W. Muir '65, and Matthew Hale, Jr. '66. The fifth member of the group was Dr. Harry McDade, a specialist in treating frostbite...
...students, Peter T. Carman '66, Fritz Ermarth 3GSAS, Matthew W. Hall '66, and Larry W. Muir '65, all members of the Harvard Mountaineering Club, left in a party organized and led by Ritner E. Walling, an M.I.T. graduate who has had considerable climbing experience in the area...
...just isn't so, says Dr. Muir. The real reasons for the apparent scarcity of the disease in underdoctored nations, he reports in Cancer, are: 1) most cases are never recognized; 2) even when recognized, many are not reported; 3) few people in underdeveloped countries live long enough to get the most common forms of cancer...
During long service in Singapore, which has many more doctors and vastly better medical facilities than most Eastern countries (except Japan), Dr. Muir found enough statistics to shatter the myth of a cancer-free Utopia in the Orient. At first glance the island's cancer death rate appears to be about one-third that of the U.S.: 52 per 100,000 every year, as against 150. But Singapore's population is loaded top-heavily in the lowest age brackets: 33% under ten years old, as against 22% in the U.S. and 16% in England. Only 20% of Singapore...