Word: pea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Australian scientists got on the trail because of infertility in sheep: it turned out that the barren ewes were browsing on estrogenic plants. In India, Dr. Sudhir Nath Sanyal thought he had found just what the subcontinent needs in an extract from the common pea, Pisum sativum, but his results have not been confirmed. Some Europeans and the American Shoshone Indians swear by an extract from a species of gromwell or stoneseed (Lithospermum), but scientists have not been able to find the magic in it-if there...
...PITUITARY GLAND. Just about the hardest part of the body for a surgeon to get at is the pea-sized pituitary gland (see diagram), producer of a few master hormones that govern the production of dozens of "slave" hormones. An overactive pituitary causes Cushing's syndrome, some forms of gigantism and adult overgrowth, and some cases of virilism in girls and women. Removal or deactivation of even a normally active pituitary helps some patients with advanced cancer of the breast or prostate, and diabetes victims going blind from bleeding of retinal arteries...
...nitrogen probe deep into the tissue. In each of three required operations, the tissues were frozen and allowed to thaw. The patient complained of only a mild burning sensation that lasted a few hours after each treatment. In three weeks, the cancer shrank to the size of a small pea...
...flowing saris to De Barentzen's dirndl-skirted rain dress to Lancetti's denim and organdy evening gown, elegance was clearly the theme of the day. And of the night, too. thanks to Top Designer Princess Irene Galitzine, whose patio pajamas (patterned in mauve and pea-green poppies) and open-front, open-back nightgowns (layer-wrapped to conceal seams) stopped the show in Rome, but will only start it somewhere else...
ONCE UPON A MATTRESS (CBS, 8:30-10 p.m.). In this musical-comedy adaptation of The Princess and the Pea, Carol Burnett re-creates her off-Broadway role as a swamp girl who swims the castle moat and is courted by a prince. Richard Rodgers' daughter Mary composed the score...