Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...largest single consumer of rhesus monkeys in the U.S., as foreseen in the 1955 treaty, is the polio-vaccine testing program. Lederle Laboratories of Pearl River, N.Y., now the sole U.S. manufacturer of the vaccine, grows the Sabin attenuated virus strains in cultures of African green monkey kidney cells. Samples of each batch of vaccine (currently totaling about 25 million doses a year) are then injected into the brain cavities or spinal columns of 45 rhesus monkeys. After three weeks of clinical observation, the animals are "sacrificed"-killed humanely by an overdose of sodium pentothal-so that their nervous tissues...
...brassy veteran of Broadway and Hollywood, the author of five books, and she has served as a special adviser to the U.S. delegation to the United Nations-all without getting a high school diploma. "Believe me, I was a very smart cookie," says Pearl Bailey, who calls herself "more of a philosopher than an entertainer." At 59, Bailey has decided to get a college diploma, and enrolled last week at Washington, D.C.'s Georgetown University, where she plans to major in French and squeeze in classes in Islam, Egyptian art and philosophy. Drama is out, she says, because...
...some of the solidest citizens of Illinois, Dec. 7 was something more, much more, than Pearl Harbor Day. It was John Madigan Day, duly proclaimed by both Governor James Thompson and Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic and marked by more than 700 leading Chicagoans at a party to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the great man's entry into journalism. For some of Madigan's colleagues in the press, however, it was another day that will live in infamy...
...just one man: the Black Pearl...
...were slow to recognize this. It was not until 1969 that the government of the fledgling state of Hawaii took the final bold step of abolishing isolation-in effect, flinging the prison doors wide open. The patients at Kalaupapa and at Hale Mohalu, a hospital and treatment center in Pearl City on Oahu, were free to leave or to come and go as they pleased...