Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Two research teams, a continent apart, are hot on the trail of poles-apart methods of combatting measles. Traditionally one of the "inevitable" childhood fevers, measles is widely underrated as a health menace. For children under three and for adults, it is a threat to life itself; at any age...
Gromyko, "the world's highest-ranking errand boy," arrived at the opening session wearing, of all things, a Homburg. Hamming for the cameras, the dour old disher-upper of cold-war epithets raised the Homburg and waved, and he cracked a certain smile as he posed with his East...
Skillfully edited film clips (all shot by NBCameramen) took the TV audience into the dangerous neighborhood of the East Berlin anti-Red riots of 1953, called back the high, droning traffic of the airlift of 1948-49. Then there were the refugees of today, a steady, hopeful stream, explaining their...
From Pioneer III, Van Allen discovered that there are not one but two radiation belts, with a low-intensity slot between them. Studying the tapes, he concluded that the outer belt is made of weaker particles, presumably protons and electrons that come from the sun. At its outer edges, it...
Van Allen summed up his conclusions: "Apparently, something happens on the sun. It sends out a burst of gases. The reservoirs above our earth shake like a bowl of jelly. The radiation droozles out at the ends and makes the auroral displays at the North and South Poles."