Word: nobels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...home of the President and his lady came 49 Nobel laureates, who with their wives and other distinguished guests totaled 173.* Gathering in the East Room, the Nobelmen plucked glasses of Manhattans, martinis and sherry from passing trays. Then the word quietly passed that the President was about to enter-and waiters plucked the drinks away from the guests...
...Albert Lasker Medical Journalism award for outstanding medical reporting in magazines. Cant's cover story on Virologist John Enders (TIME, Nov. 17) was cited for "presenting an exciting and informative view of the world of viruses" that "has set a high standard deserving of emulation." Nobel Prizewinner Enders himself, in a letter to Cant, called the piece "an excellent statement in a short compass of the present state of virology. Comments from colleagues have been uniformly favorable." In fields as specialized as medicine, we try to be intelligible to the layman while keeping the respect of the professionals...
...Boston in a mock funeral staged by two women's peace groups. About 20 pickets huddled at Chicago's Congress and Michigan Avenues under a banner proclaiming: "Nuclear Tests Threaten Mankind." Admitted their leader: "It's awfully hard to keep up a sustained campaign." In Washington, Nobel Chemist Linus Pauling was among marchers outside the White House...
Last month 15 of West Germany's most eminent professors rose in protest. Writing to every member of the Bundestag, they urged the outlawing of an atavism that is "utterly incompatible with our contemporary conception of morals and ethics." The professors, including Nobel prizewinning Physicist Max Born, got nowhere. The Bundestag is laced with the Alte Herren (alumni) of dueling societies. Fumed one Alter Herr: "Don't talk about things you don'tunderstand...
Dozens of people from Nobel prizewinners to Canaveral secretaries appear during the hour, but Glenn is at the center...