Word: research
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bill plans a career in research, probably in mathematics, physics or chemistry, has his choice of General Motors or National Merit Scholarship to pay his way next fall at Harvard. He does not date ("I'm not quite ready for that yet"), amuses himself with chess, classical records and books (most recent ones: Lord Jim, Of Human Bondage). His passion for mathematics, his favorite scholarly field, came to him early from his father, an engineer who works for the Bureau of Reclamation...
Ever since Dr. Ernest L. Wynder championed the view that heavy cigarette smoking is a major cause of lung cancer, he has been challenged to produce the substances in tobacco smoke (or tar) that do the damage. Last week the American Association for Cancer Research, meeting in Atlantic City, took Wynder's word for it that he has now run the number of tobacco-tar fractions capable of causing cancer up to eight, with the end not yet in sight...
These amounts, Dr. Wynder conceded, are not enough to explain the recent startling increase in lung cancer. So, he argued, either there are other cancer-causing substances still undetected, or there is something that may seem innocent by itself but increases the effect of these cancer-stimulating factors. Laboratory research is now aimed at reducing the tar's content of polycyclic hydrocarbons, either by achieving more complete combustion or by adding a catalyst to the tobacco...
...mutual funds and thousands of individual investors buy and sell. In this select group of experts, who can often send a stock zipping up-or down -the leading chartist is generally recognized to be Edmund W. Tabell, 55, the tall (6 ft. 2½ in.), mustached vice president and research director of Walston & Co. Tabell keeps 2,500 charts, biggest number on Wall Street, has used them to score a topflight record in predicting market swings. Says Samuel L. Stedman, partner of Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co.: "Ed Tabell is the best bird dog on the Street. When he points...
Around this intrinsically fascinating story, Author Flavia Anderson has wrapped the bulky burlap of 50-odd volumes of research. Cliché-laden and crammed with minor figures, the book has a narrative pace roughly that of a Yangtze barge hauled upstream. But it is a historical trip worth taking for readers who can match Author Anderson's labor of love with a love of labor...