Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believes in utilizing the full force of government for the advancement of social, political and economic justice at the municipal, state, national and international levels." With Richardson Dilworth. who succeeded him as mayor, and Jim Finnegan. now Adlai Stevenson's campaign manager. Clark led the revolt that turned Philadelphia from a Republican stronghold into a Democratic bastion...
...call, Monaco's rulers moved on to a press conference in the office of Press Secretary James Hagerty. Although eligible to vote in the presidential elections, Grace declined to say whether she is a Democrat (her millionaire papa, John B. Kelly Sr., is a big-wheel Democrat in Philadelphia) or for whom she would vote; in fact, she doubted that she would vote for anyone because of "my marriage to the head of a foreign state." Smiled the Prince: "She's a Monagasque." After they limousined away, the White Housers, sighing over the afternoon's dash...
...behind Pygmies," says Austrian-born Father Martin Gusinde, 69, who teaches anthropology at Washington's Catholic University of America. Starting in 1934, he studied little brown people in Central and South Africa, the Philippines and the Andes. This year, with the help of a grant from Philadelphia's American Philosophical Society, he went to the interior of Australian New Guinea, where a little-known race of Pygmies lives in the rugged Schrader Mountains. "Such a terrible country!" says Father Gusinde. "In Austria the Alps are a kind of avenue compared to those mountains...
...aneurysm (ballooning blister) often develops on the muscular wall of the ventricle after a heart attack (estimated U.S. incidence: 25,000 to 200,000 cases a year). Famed Philadelphia Surgeon Charles P. Bailey believes that many such aneurysms can be greatly improved by surgery. By clamping off the blister sac, amputating it and stitching up the ventricle wall, his team got good results in seven out of eight cases-far better than the "dismal prospects with conservative management...
...breathes a small proportion of all the molecules of nitrogen and oxygen are ionized by cosmic rays-they become positive ions if they lose an electron, negative ions if they gain one. Philadelphia researchers have found that almost two-thirds of hay fever victims won quick relief in air that was heavily negative-ionized, snuffled and sneezed far more in air that was artificially positive-ionized. As a result, Philco Corp. plans to market a negative-ionizing air conditioner. ¶Automobile-accident victims often report "brain concussions" and are admitted to hospitals for study, but in 30% of cases studied...