Word: organism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like a proud papa recounting the feats of his offspring, the Communist organ L'Humanité* ticked off the high spots of 20 days of anti-American activity in France. Item: at Revel, in Haute-Garonne, "300 peasants tore up surveyors' markers at a new military airbase." Item: at Saint-Quentin, "youth made a fire of joy out of the tracts and brochures of the [American] occupation." Item: at Toulouse, "street parades against the arrival of munitions . . . from across the Atlantic...
...gave him exclusive interviews that resulted in Krock's winning a Pulitzer Prize and a special citation. Last week James ("Scotty") Reston, No. 2 man in the Times's Washington bureau, explained how Bureau Chief Krock manages to do it. Writing in the Times's house organ on Krock's 25th anniversary with the paper, Reston says that Krock's exclusives illustrate "what must hereinafter be known as the give-'em-hell rule of journalism or Krock's law." The law: "Nothing loosens up a well-informed circle like a good kick...
Director Sweeney canvassed collections as far afield as Florida and California. A collector in Fort Lauderdale sent Joan Miró's Dancer Listening to Organ Music in Gothic Cathedral; a San Franciscan contributed a sculpture by Britain's Henry Moore. From Switzerland, Norway and The Netherlands came such prizes as Henri Rousseau's The Hungry Lion, Edvard Munch's The Cry, and Marc Chagall's Homage to Apollinaire...
...temperature of the nearby air had no effect. Warm objects could be detected by the pit organ even through the cold air of a refrigerated room. But when a sheet of glass, opaque to long infra-red rays, was placed between the snake and a warm object, it "blinded" the pit. Drs. Bullock and Cowles conclude that the pit is a sort of "heat eye," sensitive to the infra-red rays that come from warm objects. It detects cold objects by giving less response than it does to the snake's room-temperature surroundings. A glass of water only...
...This organ must be very useful to the snake, say Bullock and Cowles. Rattlesnakes have good eyesight, but they do most of their hunting at night or underground, and so must be grateful for an organ that points out warm prey. A snake crawling down a dark burrow after a warm mouse quivering at the end of it can "see" its prey through its pits...