Word: redness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moderate Cubans hoped that Castro had learned as well as talked on his U.S. trip. One ranking member of the Castro party declared that "Fidel was astonished at his warm reception. It profoundly changed his thinking about the U.S." Red-liners in the Castro movement were worried. Major Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, pro-Communist commander of Castro's bloody Cabana Fortress in Havana, warned that "foreign influences are trying to prevent the success of the revolution...
...detect DNA and RNA, the Army team used acridine orange, a fluorochrome dye that easily unites with the nucleic acids and shines brightly under ultraviolet light. Result: the higher the cell's nucleic acid content, the more intense the fluorescence (green to yellow for DNA, red for RNA). After a few hours of training, a skilled cyto-technologist can spot malignant cells by the intensity of fluorescence he sees in his microscope...
...shows. Mrs. Miniver, Random Harvest, Ninotchka, Waterloo Bridge are all on the books. He is angling for the rights to Our Town, has already taped an impressive remake of The Moon and Sixpence, starring Sir Laurence Olivier. In May he will do Billy Budd, in August The Ransom of Red Chief; just before Christmas he plans to produce Arrowsmith...
Johns paints the American flag in various colors, including the conventional ones. Or he paints targets, or numbers arranged in little squares. Or, tiring of that, he will put a frame around an opened book and paint the whole thing red. Or he will attach a music box to the back of a blue collage, with the key sticking through the front. "The music box played Silent Night," he remarks. "I fixed it to go 'ping, ting, click' instead." Prize exhibit in the Museum of Modern Art's "Recent Acquisitions" show last week was a Johns target...
...Allen waited in Iowa City. In a few days, long, wide paper tapes with wiggly red pen lines began to arrive from monitoring stations in the U.S. The cosmic-ray count that they showed was not unusual. But after two or three weeks, tapes began to dribble in from stations in South America. "As soon as we started looking at them, we saw the most remarkable situation." Over the U.S., where the satellite swooped low, the rate was about 40 counts a second. But over the equatorial region, where the satellite was rising to its highest point, the counting rates...