Word: normalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basement of Seattle's Civic Auditorium, delegates to the biennial convention of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Bricklayers Union were happily engaged in the normal pursuits of a beer bust one night last week when a pair of topflight Democratic politicians dropped in. He hoped, said Adlai Stevenson, that his amiable and popular companion, Washington's Democratic Senator Warren Magnuson, would be re-elected by a big majority. Then he added: "And I hope he can carry somebody else along with...
...James H. Wible and colleagues of Detroit's Wayne University College of Medicine. Called "Elgiloy," the metal is formed into a valvelike flap and covered with nylon. The surgeon fits it into the heart in place of a sub-par mitral or aortic valve. Within 48 hours normal tissue begins to grow around it, in about two weeks completely encloses it. The metal is expected to retain its springiness beyond the patient's life expectancy. ¶Because certain cancers take up phosphorus more readily than healthy tissues do, a University of Minnesota team headed by Dr. Donald...
...Sloan-Kettering Institute's Director Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads announced that he and fellow researchers had confirmed the long-suspected existence of a "cancer-immune mechanism" in normal human cells. In a series of tests at Ohio Penitentiary begun last spring (TIME, June 4), laboratory-cultivated human cancer cells were transplanted to 14 cancer-free convict volunteers. Similar transplants had previously grown well in patients already suffering from cancer. But in the healthy convicts they "evoked a most vigorous, inflammatory reaction," and "were promptly rejected and disappeared." When the mechanism that rejects the cancerous cells is finally identified...
...among pundits. Apart from the strictly personal popularity of President Eisenhower, he reported, the Republican Party is gaining long-range strength in a "significant reshuffling of party loyalties." In many cases, he found, the economic hostilities of the Depression and the New Deal era, which made the Democrats the "normal majority" party, have been blurred over by prosperity. Moreover, he reported, the "spectacular expansion" of the middle class has given more voters a conscious stake in what they call "the party that's good for business...
...Power and the Prize (M-G-M), like Executive Suite and Patterns, starts out as if it were really going to explain the difference between the American Way of Life and the Normal Course of Business...