Word: research
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plead with my heroes to be careful in stating their case. You can't go home again. And there is a need for a place where research and reading and teaching can be quietly. Culture and Anarchy...
Several of the Army's six major CBW installations have almost pastoral settings where game abounds and Boy Scouts come to camp and hike. The serene surroundings belie the research being conducted at these sites. At Fort Detrick, diseases are developed in laboratories with long stainless-steel and sealed-glass cabinets, many bearing stenciled nicknames like "African Queen" and "Tribulation Row." Fertilized eggs enter the labs in compartmented trays and move through the cabinets on conveyor belts. As they pass, the eggs are infected by lab technicians working through the cabinet walls with heavy rubber gloves and hypodermic needles...
Taken as a purely defensive instrument, CBW research might be valuable in teaching the military to detect a chemical or biological attack at the earliest moment-a considerable advantage, because many CBW agents are colorless, odorless and otherwise undetectable before they strike. Even so, it is not yet clear how such knowledge might benefit the civilian population, which could not be rapidly regimented to seek shelter or take antidotes...
...palms, the heart and head lines are separate and distinct, and neither extends clear across the palm. In many victims of mongolism and of prenatal rubella, however, they are replaced by a single "simian crease," like that on a monkey's palm. At the Children's Medical Research Foundation in Sydney, Australia, Dr. Margaret A. Menser and S. G. Purvis-Smith found another abnormality. In this, an extended head line becomes a simianlike crease, slanting across the palm but leaving a separate heart line. Somewhat chauvinistically, they called it the "Sydney line," although other diagnosticians claim to have...
...implications for civilian life are just beginning to be explored, but military research into the consequences of separation may eventually shed some light on the marital problems of hard-pressed executives who work evenings and weekends and jet away on frequent business trips. Such "corporate bigamists," torn by their conflicting dedications to wife and job, have become an increasing concern of management consultants and psychiatrists...