Word: oak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indeed something to love last week. In the Shenandoah Valley, apples clustered rich and red in Senator Harry Byrd's vast orchards near Berryville. In the famed Tidewater region, haze shimmered blue over sparkling crystal estuaries. In the west, the beech's first gold and the oak's first russet welcomed autumn from the Appalachian crests. In the tangled Wilderness, dusk cast early purple shadows round Lindsay Almond's family farm land...
...Oak Park, Mich...
...facts, reported by Dr. David G. Doherty of the Atomic Energy Commission's famed Oak Ridge National Laboratory: several compounds built around S, 2-aminoethylisothiuronium (or AET) have been given to rats and mice, monkeys and dogs. Then the animals have been exposed to radiation. Figuring that 400 r. (see SCIENCE) will kill half the animals or human beings exposed to it, Researchers Doherty and Raymond Shapira doubled the dose. Whereas all untreated animals died, nearly all those given a suitable dose of AET survived...
...sprawled dead. Behind him, two gendarmes in a jeep sat dazed and bleeding behind shattered shatterproof glass. Stopped still farther back, Sami Solh's limousine turned round and sped up the mountain road. The assassins made off. That evening fellow townsmen of Fayet Esrouer lugged heavy oak caskets down the jagged river gorge to bring home to Beit Meri what was left of their friends...
Plant Poisons. To ward off itching and blistering caused by poison ivy and poison oak, doctors wanted a preventive to be taken by mouth, because injected extracts sometimes caused worse irritation than they were supposed to prevent. New York University's Biochemist Margaret B. Strauss developed the tablets, Dr. Robert J. Langs tested them on Coast Guardsmen clearing brush along lower Mississippi waterways. Result: up to 95% effective for at least six months. Trade-named Aqua Ivy, the tablets are nonprescription. Still under investigation: use of Aqua Ivy injections for victims who already have severe ivy poisoning. Doctors report...