Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faraway Lake Success, what Sheik Yaseen called "foreign interference" was on the agenda again. The 57-nation U.N. General Assembly would meet in emergency session this week in another attempt to solve the Palestine problem. But neither Jews nor Arabs had yet accepted the U.S.-sponsored plea for a Palestine truce. Without a truce, the temporary U.N. trusteeship proposed by the U.S. (and opposed by both Jews and Arabs) would be just as hard to enforce as partition...
Shortly before 1 p.m., a light rain swept across Bogotá, wetting the columns of the Capitolio. There the ninth International Conference of American States had been in session for a fortnight on matters of high moment to the hemisphere-the industrial upbuilding of Latin America, the problem of Communism in the Americas. As the rain began to fall, most meetings adjourned for lunch...
Mustaches & Models. Intellectual women have hair problems too, but of a different sort. At the Dundee convention, said Dr. Armattoe, 58% of the female scientists between 21 and 45 showed "hirsutism in the form of mustaches." Swedish women are luckier than others. Most of them are as bald on their upper lips as the male Swedes are on their pates. But on the whole, Dr. Armattoe concluded sadly, mustaches are an increasing problem to the cultured young women of Europe...
Radioactive tracers, which have revolutionized medical and biological research, are now going to work in industry. This week Arthur D. Little, Inc. of Cambridge, Mass, told how it used the tracer technique to solve a steel problem...
...Next problem was to find a human to check the experiment on. The parasite that causes monkey malaria (Plasmodium cynomolgi) is like the parasite that causes most human malaria (Plasmodlum vivax"). He found a mental patient who was about to be given malaria anyway for treatment of general paralysis. The patient and his wife agreed that doctors could take out a small piece of his liver by a minor operation, seven days after he had been bitten by infected mosquitoes. At 5 o'clock one morning Dr. Shortt got the sliver of liver, rushed to his laboratory and worked...